A ghost in white haunts Leningrad's parks — but is she real or just poetry made flesh?
Among the greenery of the parks of St. Petersburg, the white dress of a beautiful stranger flashes. Together with the prototype of the poet, and other characters - visitors to the restaurant - we wander around the city, go to restaurants, to the train station, to a reception in a rich and noble house. And everywhere we meet her. A stranger.
Cinematography
Leningrad's parks shot like living watercolors.
Costume
That white dress — instant icon of Soviet fantasy.
Director
Aleksandr Belinsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Aleksandr Belinsky was primarily a theater director; this was his rare cinematic venture, explaining the staged, tableau-like compositions.
The film adapts Alexander Blok's poetry about the 'Beautiful Lady' — a symbol of divine feminine ideal that haunted Russian Symbolist literature for decades.
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