Plot synopsis

An eccentric comedy about the trip of Alyosha, a young designer who drafted a model of the future capital. The love adventures of Alyosha and Zoya and of Fedya and Elly, a lyric-comic couple, are on the background of Moscow reconstruction. The film was never released. It is stored in the State film fund.

commentaries

«Московский текст» в отечественных фильмах 1920-1940-х годов [Moscou dans le cinéma russe des années 1920-1940], Н.А. БОЯРШИНОВА, journals.eco-vector.com, 2025

Urban Planning as a Shifting Symbol in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, Anna GUBOGLO, eefb.org, 2021

Deux fables socialistes d’Alexandre Medvedkine, Catherine GERY, Presses de l'Inalco, 2016

Москва в фильмах 1910-1950-х годов [Moscou dans les film de 1910 à 1960], Александра ГУРЬЯНОВА, daily.afisha.ru, 2016

Город в кино. История вопроса, Liubov ARKUS, Олег КОВАЛОВ, seance.ru, 2012

La Moscou du « plan stalinien » à travers l’œuvre de L’OST et la fiction cinématographique, Valérie POZNER, Élisabeth ESSAIAN, Cécile PICHON-BONIN, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

- Soviet comedies, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024

- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2023

- Festival "Polka. liberated cinema", Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Moscow, St-Petersburg, two capitals, one country, Toulouse (France), 2010

- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010

- Année croisée France-Russia, (kinoglaz.fr), 2010

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008

- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2002

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