Leningrad November

After a ten year long stay in West Germany Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a loveaffair with the deafmute Lena Around Max relationship to his father Igor and Lena losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants In the eyes of the returning Max the city is at once wellknown and foreign Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city