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Together with the camera, a hand searches a tiled floor on which photographs, cutlery and sheets of music have left a trace of the past. We see the face, and a little later, the hands of Polina Pradkina. 18 years old, a pianist and inhabitant of Leningrad. A city where the red of a public telephone box contrasts more sharply with the predominating brown than the sallow bouquets of the flower seller alongside. After 'Pauline in Berlin' and 'Martin in the land of the Trabants', the third video profile from the Wellendorfs series 'Big City Portraits'. An unexpectedly optimistic townscape, thanks to the stress placed on the smallest inhabitants - the innocence of children and cats is after all a universal fact. Through this positive approach, even a rusted iron fence creates more associations with a music staff than with the one-time iron curtain.
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André Nientied
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Editing: Barbara Scherfif, Kassandra Wellendorf, Sound: Olav Skaaning Andersen, Music: S. Prokofjev, With: Polina Phradkina, Ira Gizlina
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