In a small Ural village live only simple ordinary people except for the local hearing-impaired “fool” lyosha. he lives in a makeshift house made of garbage, weekly draws strange circles on the fields and tries to catch radio waves 24 hours a day in hope to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. the villagers laugh at lyosha and his strange hobbies, but everything changes when the one he has been calling for so long finally visits him.
Acting
Stoyanov's wordless, devoted desperation
Production
Lyosha's garbage architecture is production design poetry
Director
Ivan Sosnin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ural setting evokes Russia's 'zone of alienation'—places where Soviet collapse left spiritual vacuum that UFO cults historically filled.
Director Sosnin cast actual villagers; the mockery Lyosha endures mirrors their real reactions to the character's eccentricities during shooting.
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