On the Steep Cliff

Setting: a village. Protagonist: a bird catcher and hunter. Scenery: idyllic. The bold, ominous score by Oleg Karavaychuk, with whom Muratova will work more often, is full of melancholy and sadness. This graduation film as yet bears no mark of the ‘dangerous’ Muratova, the 'scandal seeker' and 'anarchist'. It is the director’s prenatal period, although an important theme can already be glimpsed: the relationship between people and animals. But for now this is harmonious. Screened in combination with Letter to America.