I remember seeing this film on Belarus' TV a few years ago and it got stuck in my mind as one of those late soviet movies with weird flows, sounds and imagery. There's not much of a plot, but some man visiting the places of his childhood, and recollecting memories about himself and his twin brother in post-WW2 Belorussia and their experience with soviet life and Christianity. One of the twin brothers dislikes the cruelty and sinfulness of this world, while the other turns a blind eye to it (from movie description). Seeing how the twins were played by the same child, it appears to describe the duality of human nature, one part influenced by God's spirit is drawn to God and good, and the other (the sin in the flesh) drawn to evil, as apostle Paul had described in Epistle to Romans 7:15-25. It's a slow movie, but hard to look away; easy on the dialog, but heavy in strange images of Gospel allusions, soviet life and animation effects. The soundtrack is fitting with moody sound effects and nice melodies in the background. It's not a very deep movie and it's impossible to understand about Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity fully from it; for this - read the New Testament and pray to God for its understanding; but if it did bring even one man to faith in God and Jesus, then i praise God for it and it's worth being done.
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