简介：Politically-tintedfilmaboutthepioneersofSoviettelevisionshowsKovalovasanactor. AfilminwhichOlegKovalovperformsasactor.ThePaperEyesofPrishvin,apolitically-tintedfilmaboutthepioneersofSoviettelevision,isinfactoneofthefirstmanifestationsofRussianpost-modernism,inwhichplayingwithgenresandleitmotifshasaleadingrole.LikethefilmConfessionbyTengizAbuladze,thatwasreleasedslightlyearlier,thefilmdemythologisestheideologyandtheaestheticsofthe'GrandStyle',monumentalisminart.OneofthosewhofellvictimtothatwasEisenstein,whoishereportrayedasacaricaturewithahomosexualbent.InthisfilmOlegKovalovplaystheroleofasymbolicLeningradintellectualwithglassesandahat:asmallvictimofthegreatdictatorship.Whileheisnotaprofessionalactor,KovalovmanagestogivehispersonalityatimelessnessthatbringshimunexpectedlyclosetothefigurescreatedbyNabokov.…