To flow!

As the film "The case" of Alexei German reminded in Cannes about the fate of Kirill Serebrennikov, who is prohibited from leaving the country

Of course, the “business” is not about Serebrennikov, and the director emphasizes in every possible way that he shot a universal story. In particular, about how corruption turns living complex people into a monosyllabic homogeneous electorate.

Herman Jr. prefers to shoot his stories under electric clouds, in which paper soldiers from different times play Garpastum and dream of space. Its difficulty -based picture “Air” about the pilots from the fictional air regiment, who beat with the enemy above the sky of the blockade Leningrad, is closely connected with the best examples of domestic cinema about the war. Filming of battal scenes and air battles were postponed due to pandemic on ... an unknown future. In order not to go crazy (as the director himself admits), he took out a long -standing script from the nightstand about house arrest. But somehow this “long-standing script” is closely glued up to today's day.

At the Cannes premiere at the Debury cinema, the general director of the festival Thierry Fremo sang to the praises of Russian cinema, generously represented on Kruazette, his great history, the experiences of young directors, like Kira Kovalenko, the film of which in the same program “Special View”. Alexei German thanked the selectors, said that showing happiness and challenge for him. About happiness is clear. About the call - in more detail.

The international name for the film "Home arrest". The story of a philologist, who turned out to be locked up with a bracelet on his leg (not to wash, not get away from the house further than a hundred meters), in fact, because of the post on the network. In this post, the philologist accused the mayor of embezzlement and theft, providing the accusation of Kolkhkim Shak.

The authorities have long worked out the mirror method of combating the rebels: the professor himself was accused of embezzlement of state property - he stole the money allocated for the scientific conference. So Judge Morozova decided (all the coincidences are random, to which to remember that the real judge Morozova at one time punished both Navalny and the leader of the association of Russian carriers Andrei Bazhutin). Where are the professor of 15 chairs - one lf and Petrov is known. Now we must prove that he did not stole, that he was not financially responsible. That the conference took place (as a performance by Serebrennikov “Summer on a Summer Night”, for example). That is not a giraffe. But no, giraffe - they will devour and will not extend. It is urgent to admit - the zone is crying for him, it will explain to him a thoughtful investigator (Alexander Pal). And mom. The wife left. Daughter in a disconnection. Bandits beat. The doctor does not heal. The heart is sick. The plumber, with whom they drink first “to flow!”, And then “for leaking!”. Together they will come to the philosophical conclusion: "It will not be better than now!"

In an epigraph, a quote from the Sartre “flies”, as you know, is a free interpretation of an ancient Greek myth about Orest and his unbending sister Electre ... but it seems more suitable for another: “The painful secret of the gods and kings: they know that people are free. People are free, egisf. You know this, but they don’t. ”

The conflict is built like a puzzle from accepting specific processes. Those who regularly visited them or carefully monitored newspaper reports will recognize the accurately reproduced details (such as, for example, as a ban on visiting a mother in a hospital and even her funeral).

Each of the characters is an accurate screenshot of the social psychological state of different strata and their relationship with the authorities.

So, Professor David (Merab Ninidze) lives in a small town of middle -aged, a Silver Age poetry, communicates exclusively with his mother (Rosa Khairulin), who for his stupid, obviously losing stubbornness scolds him and is afraid for him to death.

Lawyer Anna Mikhailovna (Anna Mikhalkova), like everyone else, at first invites him to forget about the mayor, to solve his own insoluble issues. But gradually draws in, ready to go to the end.

The investigator (Alexander Pal) is a well -read, educated (they didn’t meet such processes), the “cattle yard” compares with “1984”, I would be glad to help, but cannot but put it. Servant person. Everyone knows and understands everything. But they are silent. But what do you want a revolution? You wash yourself with blood.

That is, from the point of view of the layman, another Chatsky himself is to blame. Wrote about the power of the bad - answer. We also know, we do not climb. Better admit. Do you need the most?

Yes, the expelled David of the Revolution does not want to everywhere, he wants to not be stolen.

The people in the film are personified by a paid demonstration under the windows of the prisoner: “Professor - thief!”, A doctor, a locksmith, turning off water with a sense of sympathy, neighbors, mowing on a scandalist.

There are students, students of the professor with their personal choice (one boy was expelled for a single picket, their beloved Chinese student will leave, throwing work about Mandelstam), the rest will transfer to another trusted teacher, and only Shevchuk for the guitar will remain as a “free zone”.

The mayor in Brioni with the face of the criminal will also appear briefly on TV.

So, the toast is "there will be no better than now!" - Drink standing to the bottom.

Place of action: an apartment, a courtyard with pine trees (took off in a quarantine in Repino) and a rusted iron portrait of Lenin. The feeling of claustrophobia, closed to the world who is sailing into the non -existence of the world: books, folders, work of students, manuscripts in the silver age, portrait of Akhmatova, paintings of Kluge. Who needs all this?

The film was shot in one scenery, solved by poster means. Well, yes, the doctor is confused, who does not heal the patient, and some manifest phrases ... But in the architectonics of the poster, an overlap, catchy, pronounced ideology, and actionism are supposed.

There are times when “abandoned in space” requires, first of all, direct statements and imprudent actions.

Today, Aesopov is returning the tongue, half -things read exclusively with their own. What language is needed to express everything that we are so worried about?

The final of the film is encouraging. And depressing. As in life, when it is difficult to choose. I would like to save the family. And yourself. And in this unbearably difficult, almost path position, he is trying to “preserve itself” to “keep himself” quoting verses of the twenty -four -year -old Mandelstam “On unprecedented freedom” the professor. And director Alexei German Jr.

Whether we, abandoned in space,

Doomed to die,

About excellent constancy

And to regret fidelity!