- kiosk for the film "Dovlatov"
- location | Saint Petersburg
- status | realised
- area | 11
- year | 2017
- crew | Elena Okopnaya, Andrey Volyntsev, Anna Volyntseva
Within the cinematic universe of "Dovlatov", directed by Aleksey German Jr. with production design by Elena Okopnaya, small-scale architectural forms of the Soviet period become carriers of memory and time, quietly shaping the emotional landscape of the film. Designed from carefully studied photographic archives of the 1950s–1960s, the kiosk emerges not merely as scenery, but as a visual fragment of lived history.
Its fragile, translucent glass body, held by a restrained metal framework, instantly transports the viewer into the melancholic, fleeting atmosphere of the Khrushchev Thaw – an era suspended between hope and disillusionment. This temporal tension is rendered through a subtle cinematic contrast of textures and styles: the softly curving Art Nouveau windows are veiled with delicate curtains featuring French festoons, a ghostly echo of the fading monumental pathos of Stalinism and the ornate excess of Soviet Baroque.
The kiosk thus functions as a silent witness – a modest yet eloquent architectural accent that reflects the quiet poetry, irony, and fragility of the time in which the film unfolds.
