A director's farewell letter to a country that no longer exists.
The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.
Direction
Kalik weaponizes his own footage as autobiographical evidence.
Editing
Collage structure mirrors fractured Soviet memory itself.
Director
Mikhail Kalik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kalik was among the 'refusenik' directors who emigrated during the Soviet crackdown on Jewish artists; this film is one of the only cinematic testimonies from that exodus.
The 'wind' of the title refers to a specific Moscow weather pattern Kalik associated with his final days before emigration — he waited three years for it to film the closing shot.
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