A Trip Without a Load vast plains. The short day passes, the snowstorm begins and the long night is approaching, the temperature drops to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Khromov and Sirotkin face the prospect of freezing to death before they are found or to survive at any cost. In this situation manifest the true psychological and human qualities of each man. A Trip Without a Load A Trip Without a Load () is a 1962 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. A young novice Muscovite journalist, Pavel Sirotkin,
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room most central preoccupations was that of time (he called his book on the process of making films "Sculpting in Time"). Dyer refers to the long drawing-out of takes by Tarkovsky as being a manifestation of 'Tarkovsky time'. Early on in the process of writing the book Dyer considered a structure where he could divide up his discussion into the film's 142 shots, but instead discovered that his own lines of argument led off in tangents that prevented such a narrowly constructed work. The discursive and digressive structure of the work in a sense mirrors the journey undertaken by the characters