Formula of travelling in russian road-movie cinema of 2000s: “The Return” and “Roads to Koktebel”

Abstract

The article defines plot pattern of road-movie subgenre “child and adult travelling”. Author analyzes plots of Russian films “The return” and “Roads to Koktebel”. Introduction is dedicated to contextualizing the subgenre, defining its place in the road-movie genre structure and the time of arrival in soviet cinema. Then author separates out and compare main plot elements and permanent features of main characters using morphological method that allows to highlight evidently the common things, on which critics of- ten review these films together. Even more important is the difference in directors’ approaches to plot formula usage, which allows to create totally dissimilar films within the same subgenre framework. A selective Russian and foreign filmography of “child and adult travelling” subgenre is provided as a supplement.

Keywords: road-movie, subgenre, plot pattern, plot formula, child and adult, travelling, childhood.