Nikolai Obukhovich is one of the most non-trivial and subtle non-fiction authors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. At the same time, his paintings were rarely shown on television and in cinemas they were practically not shown. But among the Leningrad and Moscow intelligentsia, Obukhovich's tapes have always aroused genuine interest, thanks to a special look at seemingly well-established, trivial things and concepts.