The Steamroller and The Violin

A 1961 featurette directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of the unlikely friendship of Sasha, a little boy, and Sergey the operator of a steamroller. The film was Tarkovsky's diploma film at the State Institute of Cinematography, but was made at the Mosfilm studio. According to an interview with Polish journalist Zdzislaw Ornatowski, Tarkovsky wanted the film to be a poetic film, based on mood and atmosphere, not on sharp conflicts or traditional dramaturgy