USSR | 10:30 | 1984

Before the Inquisition court, Giordano Bruno meets a mysterious man who offers him to renounce his ideas in exchange for freedom. The stranger's arguments are convincing, and for someone who believes in the infinity of the universe, the fire of the Inquisition is not scary. So who came to Giordano in the last hours of his life: the devil, God or common sense?

In this static but tense artwork, the dynamics are conveyed in a way not characteristic of animation through in-frame montage and the juxtaposition of different sizes and angles. The artist Nina Guz, working with Goncharov on almost all of his films, contributed to this artwork. In the visual solution of the painting, the authors were inspired by the works of the mysterious and extraordinary artist of the Renaissance, Matthias Grünewald.