Lotman's World (2008)

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. The documentary offers an apparition about the life of world famous semiotician Juri Lotman - his inner and outer world. In conditions of a complicated historica era, an oasis of free though was founded in Tartu that formed the basis for semiotics of culture, an internationally acknowledged discipline.