Character Relationship Map: Anna Karamazoff

Characters

• Natasha (played by Natalya Leble) — protagonist

  Natasha is an actress in the black-and-white film Anna watches at the cinema. Alongside Lena, she collects carpets and learns the legend that a magical carpet can regain its power through the spilling...

• Woman (played by Jeanne Moreau) — supporting
• Young Man (played by Viktor Sibilyov) — supporting

  The Young Man is a formerly impoverished music arranger who once prepared notes for the singer known as Divine. He and Anna grow close, and together they plot to rob a retired military officer whom An...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Woman → Natasha (Narrative Audience Witness) — Natasha belongs to the embedded film watched by the Woman.

  The Woman enters a cinema and watches a black-and-white film in which Natasha appears as one of the actresses.

• Woman → Young Man (Alliance Criminal Partner) — They become partners in a desperate robbery and murder scheme.

  The Woman and the Young Man jointly decide to kill and rob a wealthy retired military officer. They purchase apples together, poison one, and carry ou...

Story Analysis

A displaced woman's return becomes a surreal passage through lost identity, memory, revenge, and unstable reality.

Plot Progression

1. Return To A Stolen Home — The Woman returns from a labor camp and discovers that her former home and documents are no longer available to her. Encounters with the communal apartment and the strange household establish a world...
2. The Grave And The Screen — News of the Woman's mother's death sends her toward the cemetery, guided by a large black dog. A chase leads her into a cinema and into an embedded story whose magical legend collapses.
3. Poisoned Partnership — The Woman meets the impoverished Young Man and turns her resentment toward a retired officer. Together they prepare a poisoned apple and carry out the fatal robbery.
4. Unstable Aftermath — The officer's wife returns and forces the Woman to flee. The purse swells in the theater, stolen clothing is surrendered, and a portrait breaks in the Young Man's home.