The Automobile Gains in Reliability

This film was created by Sokurov before or during his VGIK student years for the regional TV of Gorki He does not consider it a part of his filmography For its creators it was just a TV program and the people who worked on it most often were being given no distinction in the credits This document of the very origins of Sokurov gives us a notion of his prestylistic period where the personality of the future great filmmaker reveals itself in spite of means and circumstances