Aqwarius Films

A love story in spots and stripes.

This short film tells a love story in a provincial city. The film is full of humor, wonder and national color.

Once the zoo is decided to be demolished, and all its inhabitants released into the wild. Among them is a large elephant, which, having lingered, leaves the zoo last. An elephant finds himself in a huge city among skyscrapers and homeless tin can collectors ...

The film is a memory of Alexei Turkus's father, the famous architect Mikhail Turkus. In the film there is not a word about the profession of the father, but only the tenderness and enthusiastic fantasies of the child, who, according to the joking stories of the pope, imagined him either as a commander or a robber.

About the everyday events that made up family life in the USSR of the early 1980s.