Ivan Khristoforov is a creative person with the characteristic bright luminous moments and break-throughs. His ability to cause explosions is a metaphor used to describe the sensual contacts between his tragic, passionate nature and the surrounding world. He yearns to break out of the burned-out mythological space that is Russia's dwelling place and discover his own place in the endless succession of generations replacing one another in the boundless Russian plain. Ivan Khristoforov tries all the classical ways of gaining freedom: escape into himself, abroad, into his childhood, “among the people”... Source : www.lenfilm.ru
