Poznavaya belyy svet

POZNAVAYA BELYY SVET is set in the midst of a gigantic construction site where new factories and apartment blocks are being built. Once again, it’s a love triangle: Liuba meets the sensitive Michail, but is in a relationship with the thick-set Nicolay. All three of them work at the construction site: Liuba as a plasterer, the two men as truck drivers. From this sober setting, Muratova crafts an enchantingly poetic film full of color and musical interludes. Kira Muratova: “For me, the sight of a construction site is always exciting. It is chaos: a sphere where culture has not yet been created, where there’s no concept of beautiful/not beautiful, where there’s no aesthetic yet. Chaos may seem terrible, but to me it is wonderful.” (al)