Guard Me My Talisman

The setting for this offbeat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship From that strange beginning the man whose name is Klimov starts to ease himself into the couples private space and trouble ensues Complementing this story is the festival itself enactments of Pushkins works and emotional debates among the festivalgoers over the meaning of his poetry