Permskaya Kinostudiya

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton Chekhov and the young man who tends a Chekhov museum in the Crimea, though that is never made explicit."

The Soviet schoolboy Ivan Semyonov is the most unhappy person in the world because he does not like to study. Everyone around him is trying to influence him, but his grandmother constantly pampers him. And he is a tireless dreamer and constantly gets into many stories.