To See Brenta!

The first part of the non-live-action dilogy takes the viewer to Italy, to Rome, which Pushkin never visited. In the Eternal City the authors find monuments and places that were familiar to Pushkin from books, paintings and accounts of travellers. In his youth the poet called himself “an inexperienced lover of foreign lands”. The film seems to follow Pushkin’s imagination, presenting Italian realia in an even more beautiful light than in reality. Russia and Italy in the creative mind of the Russian genius are the two poles, two conceptual backbones of the film. It traces Italian parallels in “Eugene Onegin”, “Copper Horseman”, “The Songs of the Western Slavs”, the lyrical and dramatic writings of the poet. Following their protagonist, the authors try to discern Italian traces in Pushkin’s everyday life, in the life of his Russian contemporaries. (Eurasian Bridge)