The Stroll
(Progulka)
Year: 2003
Country:
RUSSIA
Run Time:
90 minutes
One of the major events of recent world cinema was "Russian Ark," a 96-minute, continuous camera-take touring the Winter Palace of the Czar in St. Petersburg, where costumed and choreographed re-enactors replayed episodes from Russian history. THE STROLL, made by members the rising Petr Fomenko Workshop theater troupe, can be considered a sunny riposte. Here is also St. Petersburg, not ghost-haunted but young and carefree, forward-looking, day-lit and buoyant, with a real-time, 90 minute narrative composed of long, hand-held digital sequences. It's a boy-meets-girl story, quite literally, as the shapely 22-year-old Olya disembarks from a car at the bridge over the Heba River and takes a walk. Straightaway she catches the eye of Alyosha, who starts chatting and proposes marriage within about 15 minutes. His buddy Petya, who joins them, is a little more guarded about the whole situation. Who is Olya and what's she really up to? Wear some comfortable shoes, comrades!
Screenplay
Dunya Smirnova
Producer
Alexei Uchitel
Cinematography
Yuri Klimenko, Pavel Kostomarov
Editing
Yelena Andreeva
Principal Cast
Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Yevgeny Grishkovets
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