“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.
Directed byKristoffer Hegnsvad
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 0h 56m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- May 24, 2024
Watch the
Trailers & teasers
Featuring
Cast & crew
Christopher Herwig
- Directed by
- Kristoffer Hegnsvad
- Written by
- Kristoffer Hegnsvad
Keep watching
More like this
4.8Soviet Hippies
2017 · Film
Helga Paris, Fotografin
2019 · Film
1.0Leninland
2013 · Film
Nel silenzio del parco
2025 · Film
8.0Four Faces of the Moon
2016 · Film
The World is Out of Focus
Film
Rich Hall's Red Menace
2019 · Film
6.5Benek Blues
2000 · Film
8.0Orange Revolution
2007 · Film
Noble and Mundane Prague
1949 · Film
Capturing Kennedy
2024 · Film
10.0The Majesty of Art
2024 · Film
Heavy Architecture
2007 · Film
5.8Architecton
2024 · Film
The Architects of Hope: The First Steps in Rebuilding Ukraine
2024 · Film
9.0Empire City
1985 · Film
5.5Big Time
2017 · Film
4.0Camadas das Águas Invisíveis
2021 · Film
Picked for you
Recommended movies
8.0My Mom Jayne
2025 · Film
7.1A Beautiful Planet
2016 · Film
8.1Samsara
2011 · Film
6.8Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Film
7.4I Am Heath Ledger
2017 · Film
6.9Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
2021 · Film
6.9An Inconvenient Truth
2006 · Film
7.5Kedi
2017 · Film
7.3WHAM!
2023 · Film
7.9Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Film
6.7Cameraperson
2016 · Film
6.9Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
2013 · Film
7.8Being James Bond
2021 · Film
7.1Objectified
2009 · Film
6.5Heart of a Dog
2015 · Film
7.4Above Majestic
2018 · Film
6.9Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · Film
6.8Ghosts of the Abyss
2003 · Film
6.2Elstree 1976
2015 · Film
8.2Baraka
1992 · Film