The Steamroller and the Violin

This is worth watching if for no other reason than to see Andrei Tarkovsky's thesis film from film school. It's a 45 minute look at the life of young boy who plays the violin and the friendship he strikes with a steamroller operator. Perhaps the film is commenting on the relationship between artist and worker in Soviet Russia. Actually, there is little that distinguishes this as a Tarkovsky film, he is clearly developing his ideas and style, yet there is an unmistakably Russian lyricism to the images and tone of the film.