Elegy journey along “Lenfilm”, the oldest Russian film-production company. A recollection on those who make films nowadays.
At midnight when the clock strikes a statue of the Gnome revives at “Lenfilm” museum. The Gnome wanders along the huge film-studios with his lantern and a bunch of keys. The Gnome visits wardrobe, props, furniture departments and even boiler-house. Finally, at the film-storage he finds the precious box with the old film-fragments. He watches the shots of the famous “Lenfilm” movies and recalls his youth.
And then the Gnome shows himself to the people – he goes to the stage where they erect the scenery, to the sound-room where they record the soundtrack and the voice of Viktor Sukhorukov. We watch Alissa Freundlich at the make-up room, Anna Kovalchuk together with Dmitry Meskhiev, Igor Maslennikov, Leonid Mozgovoy and other “Lenfilm” people sitting in the studio’s cafe on Christmas. We witness the first public film-screening ever in the “Aquarium” theater.
The Gnome enters this old stage, switches on the lights and the house comes to life full of light.
In front of the main entrance “Lenfilm” people come together. Directors, actors, art-designers – all stand ahead of the colonnade. The Gnome squeezes through the crowd and explodes the Christmas-cracker – confetti covers everything around. The cinema goes on while there are still lights in the stage…