The Bread Day

Sergey Dvortsevoy / Russia / 1998 / Czech Premiere / 54 min.

synopsis

For kilometers around a small village, nothing can be seen but a snow-covered landscape. Several villagers wait at the station for the weekly train that brings food and is their only link with the outside world. It is Tuesday, bread day. At the turnout, the last freight car is disconnected, and old men and women must push it along the track to the village. The director captured life in an abandoned, dying village near St. Petersburg in long takes that allow the villagers to adapt to the presence of the camera, and gives the viewer time to enter the world of the congregated isolated people and animals.