Golden Head

The space is divided into three parts:
- Court space
- Hospital space
- Memory Space (Black\White)
Our film is not linear. The spaces listed above replace one another, telling the story of life. But this life story is not about facts and not about Yesenin's actions, it is about his attitude to events that took place in the past and events taking place here and now. This is a story about character, about personality, about perception and attitude, about what was going on in the soul of a person experiencing certain events. This is a figurative story, the actor is alone, he explores all the vicissitudes, he lives in the frame of the drama of the poet Yesenin (in some scenes there is also an actress).

Attitudes to things and events are set out in the letters of Sergey Aleksandrovich himself, written testimonies of contemporaries and eyewitnesses of the events.
The story begins with the scene of Yesenin's interrogation in court in 1925 (the last year of his life), where he is interrogated due to the fact that while on a train to Moscow being drunk he was rude, insulted another passenger and was going to beat him, not knowing that he was an important government official. The court line is one of the three main lines of the film, which takes place in a separate space. Also in the further development of the court line Yesenin is remembered for other scandals with his participation.
To help the poet avoid prosecution, Ekaterina Yesenina (the poet's sister) once suggests her brother to go back to a psychiatric hospital. Sergey finds himself faced with a difficult choice - go to prison or once again end up in a hated mental hospital. In the end, Sergey agrees. The hospital is the second of three main lines (1923-1925), the text is read off–screen. This period also takes place in a separate space, where the hero is experiencing the events happening to him here and now.
Already in the hospital, exhausted physically and mentally, Yesenin plunges into his memories, trying to realize and rethink his whole life in order to understand how he found himself in such a situation.
The starting point of his memories is 1913. Sergey remembers: his life in his native village of Konstantinovo, his friends, his first poems, first love, "the riot of eyes and the flood of feelings" – memories and impressions of a bright childhood, formed ideals that he will carry to the very death.
Yesenin arrives in Moscow and joins the Kashkarov-Zarev revolutionary circle, he is full of inspiration and hopes for a bright future for Russia. Like all the youth of that time, he believes in the overthrow of the Tsarist government and the advent of a bright future. The subsequent collapse of revolutionary hopes after the dispersal of the demonstration, the first searches in the apartment, the feeling of constant surveillance, the death of his best friend and the understanding that in Moscow he reached a creative "ceiling" force the hero to come to St. Petersburg.
In 1916, Sergei was called up for military service as an orderly on a military medical train based in the Fedorovsky town of Tsarskoye Selo, where the Royal family lived at that time. Yesenin finds himself in the very lair of those against whom he campaigned in Moscow! However, Sergei's poetic talent leads to a rapprochement with the Royal family, he often performs in front of the Empress and her children, writes poetry to them. Yesenin is in constant contradictions – he swears allegiance to Tsar, but is aware of the absolute isolation of the Royal people from the real life of society and real problems, he likes to communicate with the princesses – but he understands: "... Green melancholy here. We are always free, and all these high–ranking people are stupid martyrs." This period of the poet's life ends with the onset of the October revolution of 1917 and the arrival of a new government.
Ardently supporting the Bolsheviks' rise to power and believing in their ideas, Yesenin moved to Moscow after the government. The creative quest begins. Realizing the limitations of his style in poetry, Yesenin, together with like-minded poets, creates a new style, a new direction in poetry – imagism, which he preaches before the arrival of a world-famous dancer in Moscow.
A turning point and fatal event in the life of the hero becomes the acquaintance with Isadora Duncan, subsequent marriage and a trip with her to Europe and the USA.
The poet's hopes for the huge Western market of ideas and opportunities are not justified and disappointment comes. Yesenin returns to his homeland, deprived of all illusions about the "new government and revolution", no longer believing in love or friendship. However, it is during this period of disappointment and despair that the best period of the poet's work begins. It is at this time that the creation of the subtlest and lyrical works takes place. These works contrast sharply with his personal life and behavior, by this point (1923-1925) Sergei was already hopelessly ill with alcoholism. A series of endless drinking, scandals and hospitals finally bring Yesenin to his grave.
The poet's life ends in December of 1925. He leaves on his own, at the peak of glory, filled with light, reconciling with reality and realizing his own immortality.