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Harvest song at the end?


Does anyone here have any information about the harvest song at the end of the movie (title, origin, etc?)

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I'd like to know that too.

Any Russian speakers out there? And while you're at it what does the literal title (scent of stone?) suggest? Is that a reference to a proverb or something?

By the way I read one review which said the last scene was a nod to this painting

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/images/ep/images/ep19.164.L.jpg

but I'm not convinced. It's not as if the Russians are short of rural images in their art and literature, and the jolliness of the painting doesn't match at all. Has more in common (not deliberately, I'm sure) with the sort of harvesting life/death irony in this:

http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/elegy.html

(Very apt actually: "I sought my death and found it in my womb")


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That harvest song is indeed quite beautiful. Would love to know what's the song during the credits as well, it reminds me of some choral concerts from Bortniansky, but I really am not sure about it.

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