A happy family, three charming children, love and harmony… The world collapses overnight when the heroine is killed by a car. Her husband doesn't understand how to move on, but at the same time he can't shut himself in and lie down on the couch, otherwise who will take care of the children?
Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme...
Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a...
