Chekhovskie motivy

CHEKHVOSKIE MOTIVY combines two texts by Anton Chekhov: Difficult People and Tatiana Repina. Together with his mother, a student from the country tries to ask his father for money to study in Moscow at a dinner – a scene that is varied again and again before finally escalating into a grotesque explosion of rage. An orthodox wedding shown in its entirety is the second setting. The wedding guests form a whole cabinet of absurd figures who repeatedly disturb and impede the ceremony. “Muratova’s trademark repetition – linguistic, visual (the many pairs of glasses in the film) and rhythmic – also characterizes CHEKHOV’S MOTIFS, just like the piercing way in which she shows animals.” (Isa Willinger) (al)