The Steamroller and the Violin

The Steamroller and the Violin Russian , translit.Katok i skripka, is a 1961 featurette directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of the unlikely friendship of Sasha Igor Fomchenko, a little boy, and Sergey Vladimir Zamansky, the operator of a steamroller. The film was Tarkovskys diploma film at the State Institute of Cinematography VGIK, but was made at the Mosfilm studio.

At the music school he plays beautifully, but his teacher, who is more interested in form and order, is stifling his creativity with a metronome. On his way back home Sasha meets Sergey again, who allows him to help him on the steamroller. The two have lunch together and face a number of adventures as they walk around Moscow. They watch a wrecking ball demolishing a decrepit building, revealing one of the Seven Sisters in the background. Sergey tells stories about the war, and Sasha play the violin for his new friend.They part with the plan to see a film together, but the plans are foiled by Sashas mother. Sasha attempts to sneak out of the apartment, and in the final scene we see Sasha running after the steamroller in a dream like sequence. ........

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