简介 With regard to this odd and experimental black-and-white Russian film, loosely based on the Alexei Tolstoy short story The Vampire's Family, the director says: "This is a chronicle of the death of Father Frost" (the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus) "or rather an announcement of it. Necrocreativity inspires a special state of feelings, mind and spirit... What is it? The conclusion is not obvious, but here it is -- one wants to think it over -- necrorealism is humanism." In the story, the sharply contrasting lives of two brothers are compared. One of them, a biologist,...