does not carry its burden A medieval knight from the last forces drags a terrible burden to the secret sanctuary - a corpse. What is he hoping for?
The second of the terrible selection of short films at the 46th Moscow Film Festival is quite short - for 20 minutes, and in it, as in "You Will Come to the Fire", the hero carries a corpse - although here he carries a heavy burden alone. For some unknown reason (perhaps the ritual requires it), the knight does not use wheel-and-horse transport, and drags the corpse with a drag, like burlaks on the Volga. It's hard and uncomfortable. Physically, you can feel the poor guy blowing up.
Given that the prologue of the film shows a woman whose nose begins to bleed, it is easy to guess what the corpse is hidden in the shroud, and then it is not difficult to guess what the knight wants - however, how the mascot Juggernaut works to the audience was not explained.
It is clear that the resurrection from the dead is not easy and dangerous, and the ritual will clearly go “wrong.”
The short film successfully manages to paint and despair, and the tension of the hero, and his pain, and a cruel battle with demonic forces. The more powerful is the finale, when the repayment that the hero receives is not at all the one he expected.
It is also worth paying attention to the “Russian footprint” in this short film – a bearded knight in it is played by Yevgeny Krylov (judging by his filmography, he lives and works in Italy). If it's a full meter swing, I'd love to see it.