Idiosyncratic and beautifully-photographed film from present-day Russia portraying a small community; a society which looks like ours, despite differences in language, culture and religion. The protagonist in Marquez’ book No One Writes to the Colonel is the basis for this film which investigates the loneliness of those who form part of a totalitarian world hostile to them. Thirty years after the publication of Marquez’ book, nothing has changed in this ‘best of all possible worlds’. Man is still alone and impotent in the vicinity of the unknown.These days, while the world has flung itself into fratricidal wars in which innocent blood flows, man must appreciate the deep truth of his loneliness in the face of eternity, God, humanity and of the necessity of uniting with the other.
