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Kingdom of animals is an unknown territory. We are like foreigners in here. We don’t understand the language of this country. They say, once lived a person who could talk to the animals, King Solomon. All peoples have fairytales with animals speaking with each other and with humans. In amazement, we’re looking at the world which considered long discovered. Animal language. It’s not human language, but special, sometimes completely unexpected ways of communication between animals…
Has the capacity of the human brain already been exhausted due to information overload? Sobolev posed this question at the end of the 1960s after a hidden camera recorded the results of a university entrance exam. The director, renowned for his belief in the endless possibilities of humanity, created a participatory documentary in which he filmed experiments with people with phenomenal abilities under the guidance of professors from the Academy of Sciences. Scientific analysis of the nature of hypnosis, telepathy, and dermo-optical perception reveals potential avenues to expanding the frontiers of human knowledge.
A scientific documentary about propaganda and crowd manipulation
What are the powers of darkness? What does black magic lead to? Is it possible to be friends with the devil, what will this friendship give and what will be the retribution? The program considers several stories that are told by their participants, people who are faced with the other world.
A man addresses the strangers on a street, he asks them to talk to him. The strangers refuse under various excuses, but later on they are looking for the people to talk to in a meetings club.
The film is a panorama of an epoch in detail and fragments of time, seen through the eyes of one of the oldest documentary filmmakers in Ukraine, Israel Goldstein, director, cinematographer, screenwriter. This film covers the period from the Civil War of 1918 to Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War.
