Awards : Prix du meilleur film soviétique pour enfants au Festival de Moscou, 1981
Plot synopsis
In a boarding school in Saint Petersburg, far from his parents, Alyosha begins a new life. As if to compensate for the distance from his family, he creates, in the image of his entourage, an imaginary world of underground inhabitants with a king and his subjects. But having failed to keep the secret of the existence of the underground inhabitants, Alyosha will lose them forever...