Arquivo

Vadim Kazanski, musician and professor of philosophy in Moscow, returns to Novosibirsk, his home town in rural Siberia where several members of his family are still living. He muses over the days when he left town to study in a city at the time known as Leningrad. Using old home-made videos, passages from theater plays, and documentaries, he tells of his journey to Moscow. With the 1991 revolution, he now returns to St. Petersburg (former Leningrad). By means of his songs that explain facts and the emotional state of the citizens on film, Vadim draws a parallel in the transformations Russia has undergone in the last 20 years. He comes to the conclusion that, to him, Leningrad was not only a city, but a time for dreams that is ended, together with communism.