Above the Lake
Above the Lake (, translit. "Nad ozerom") is a black-and-white 1995 cinema of the Russia independent film directed by Dmitrii Frolov. It is based on Alexander Blok novel "Nad ozerom". The film is not an adaptation in the usual way: it is the reconstruction of the cinema of the beginning of the 20th century, performed by our contemporaries. Being a poetically philosophical reflection of the perception of A. Blok's poetry, the film at the same time reproduces the atmosphere of the legendary Silver Age. Plot. A poor poet (perhaps Blok himself), his ghost-lady and  the third character, subtly hinting with beauty and an article on Dantes, are immersed in authors not in a feast of aestheticism, but in the simple and eternal reality of our sinful world. Exhausted by passions, they are pathetic, they are beautiful in their own way, but how impudent are their impulses, completely fitting into the scheme of the classical love triangle. And only the imagination of the Poet, even spurred by cocaine, can transform this wretchedness into a hymn to the eternal confrontation of two men who have fallen in love with one woman.