“One day every son has to perform a sad duty — to bury his father. This is the main and only event that occurs in The Second Circle and it is depicted with epic simplicity and in every detail. It makes visible all the broken connections of our life, the senseless inertia of rituals that are now disjointed but in old days had sacral content and meaning… Dead father, dead city, dead times, and one can hardly tell day from night and life from non-existence. Disappearance without trace, an insignificant heritage — a handful of false relics summing up the whole life… That is it, the tragic consequence of the historical delusions of our society — the society that dared to put the time out of joint and to place the social dogma above everything.”
Alexander Sokurov (from the author's annotation)
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