Анафема (1960)

The motet to Emperor Nicholas and his wife, confusing with the overwhelming chorus of Scriabin's Symphony #3, opens a mystical parenthesis in the film that gains religious relevance when Father Olivia, who is the proto-deacon of the cathedral - very given to excesses of gluttony as Rabelais ridiculed them, by the way - there is a harsh impact against reality because a young student lends him a book - which he cannot stop reading - and in which the animals have a concrete message to teach us humans as close similar. Impacted by the tone and pure spiritual content of the text, the singing deacon decides to buy it for the student. Upon seeing the young man again in his modest home, the first thing he did was scold him for having an image of Tolstoy on the wall of his bedroom, very similar to how he himself was scolded by his ecclesiastical superior at the beginning of the short film, for frequenting the days of the countryside going fishing with the "vulgars". Fright and then anger that the deacon will receive when the student tells him that Tolstoy is the author of the book, which is missing the front cover with the author's name, perhaps torn off to prevent a religious punishment.