About this series
The film almanac consists of three independent short stories: "The Girl and the Soldier", "The Setting Sun / The Coming of Old Age", "Feola".
All films — in order
1
Girl And Soldier
A young boxer and his girlfriend seem to be bored with the monotony of their dates, walks, and life. So he invents a girl with a romantic suitcase, with whom he supposedly fell in love, and she invents an equally romantic soldier, whom she supposedly likes. At the end of the film, when the lovers meet at the train station, they seem to have been transformed by the cross-pollination of dreams—he is a soldier, and she is leaving for somewhere, and, naturally, when she appears on the platform, she turns out to be the girl from his dreams with a suitcase in her hand.
2
Feola
A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.
3
Setting Sun
A sad story about a day in the life of an old captain, now retired. The sadness of this story is softened by a noble dose of humor. It is built on the discrepancy between a quiet life with its small, retirement joys, worries, and the inertia of the old captain's still vivid imagination. Each collision of dream and reality evokes both a slight pain and a smile of understanding. With the help of subtle, unobtrusive details, the director has managed to create the impression of a life that is passing away, sailing away, saying goodbye.
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