The House That Jack Built

The poem "This is the House That Jack Built" is a poetic rondo based on repeated refreshes, repeating, reminiscent of a children's counting tongue twister, was included in the pop repertoire of Igor Ilyinskiy. His voice, sounding in the film, and the character of the performance largely determined the rhythm of the picture. In the process of recording the sound, which was carried out "under the image", Igor Ilyinskiy, entering the image of the heroes of the film, repeated their plastic: "fluttered" a tit, sneaked with cat's softness, then in the image of a dog threw himself from an imaginary shelter behind an imaginary cat.

Having abandoned the illustrative approach (when the image obediently echoes the text, following it, which gives the whole work some passivity) to the screen version of this complete crafty irony of the poem, director Andrey Khrzhanovskiy and production designer Natalya Orlova created their own artistic world, sounding in a grotesque-paradoxical tonality and full of polyphony, where the verbal, musical and spectacular series make up the cheerful polyphony.