Artur VOITETSKY Артур ВОЙТЕЦКИЙ Artur VOITETSKI   USSR, 1967, 78 mn  Black and white, fiction

Out of Boredom ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Скуки ради    Contre l'ennui  Skuki radi

Plot synopsis

People living near a by-station, sincerely envied passengers of the passing trains. Arina, a homely lonely woman of about 40 was a cook at the station. Once the pointsman Gomozov dropped in to see her in the kitchen. The lonely man had recently lost his family and asked her to sew a couple of shirts for him. And then he asked her to come to his place in the evening to have some tea and talk just out of boredom. Arina left him at daybreak. But soon people at the station learnt about their relationship…

Selected in the following festivals :

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011

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