简介：Thethreemainheroesofthemovieareanescapedconvict,asuicidalintellectual,andaformeractresswithheroineaddiction,turnedprostitute.TheymeetaccidentallyinthestreetsofcontemporaryStPetersburg,andtheysetonajourneytotheislandBelyjinsearchofarainbow-oratreasurethatissupposedlybeenburiedtheresincethewar.Theislandersarearatherunfriendlybunchandsoontheystarthuntingtheunwelcomevisitors.Onlytheescapedconvictsurvivesthemassacrebut,shutinthethroat,heloseshisvoice. Themostpowerfulscenecomestowardstheendofthemovie.TheconvictisholdingtheBibleandappearstobepraying,whileonlymakingbabblingsounds,"fullofsoundandfury,signifyingnothing." Theclosestanalogytoawell-knownmoviewouldbeDeliveranceexceptSvetozarov'simageryismuchmoresuggestiveandpowerful. AswithotherSvetozarov'sfilms,theplotisjustamediumtocreatemythologicalimagery.Inthetraditionofaesteticsofthe"Leningradschool"hismoviesareloadedwithapocalypticalrealism,existentialnihilism,andmacabre"Dostoyevschina."Whilebrutalandviolent,hismoviesreflectRussianspiritualismandmysticismandmetaphoricallyspeakofRussiandestiny. ThismoviehasneverbeenreleasedonDVD.ThisVHSRipishardtofindeveninRussia.…