Following the Sun

Sandu is a boy of six. A playmate tells him something. If you follow the sun, you will go round the world and come back to the same place. The boy decides to try it. He sets out in the morning. All day he walks across the city. He follows the sun and keeps going. Along the way he meets many people. There is a man selling lottery tickets. He talks with a building superintendent. Everyone has their own daily trouble. The boy watches all of it with curiosity. The film fits inside a single day. The narration moves through colours and through play. The images open now and then into experiment. Nika Krimnus and Nikolai Volkov appear in the seventy two minute film, a Soviet production Mikhail Kalik finished in 1961.