The first filming day of My Friend Kolya.
Poet Vera Pavlova and mime-clown Nikolai Terentiev, an artist of the legendary Snow Show.
He is a man of movement and silence.
She is a woman of words and paradox.
This is a film about two artists who live in the space of play — and never stop being children.
Kolya put on ice skates at the age of 70 — thanks to Vera.
And he mastered them seriously.
Now, whenever they travel or tour, they look for an ice rink and take flight.
Before stepping onto the ice, Kolya tenderly ties Vera’s laces.
A bright, frosty day.
Rosy cheeks.
And Vera writes:
“Laces wrap around the hooks.
Blades glitter in the sun.
My favorite shoes — skates.
I step onto the ice — and I am in childhood.”
During filming, our cinematographer Ivan Kiba almost lost the drone — frost, sun, open space. He found it, wading through knee-deep snow.
And the flight continued — in the sky and on the ice.
Our film is about a childhood that never ends.
About love as a daily act of play.
About beginning something new at seventy — and taking off.
This is how My Friend Kolya begins.
With movement. With trust. With flight.
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