Green-Film

A love story of Masha - a scientist, teacher and a mother of a high school student.

A happy family, three charming children, love and harmony… The world collapses overnight when the heroine is killed by a car. Her husband doesn't understand how to move on, but at the same time he can't shut himself in and lie down on the couch, otherwise who will take care of the children?

Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.

Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme value.