Still Life with Wife (2006)

STILL LIFE WITH A WOMAN

Vladimir Titov is an artist who lives on the second floor in an old wooden building in Jaanilinn. His contacts with the rest of the world are minimum. His good looking wife Natalia visits him occasionally and vice versa.
Artist and his wife are both very emotional people, who during the decades have quarrelled with each other to straighten the corners and now clearly understand the aims of their hearts. They are one of those couples, who can't live together but either handle being alone.
Although they were only 15 when they met and got married when they were 30, the relationship between them is not worn-out but instead has taken new directions. They have brought up two children and now talk honestly and unadorned about their visiting marriage. "My wife is like a granite. I cannot break her," says Vladimir Titov about his wife. Natalia, who does no longer wait for prince charming or perfect love, replies with the same: "Volodja is as strong as iron, you cannot bend him."
http://exitfilm.ee/film/still-life-woman (8.04.2013).

Vladimir was born on 26th April 1948 in Kaliningrad. When he was seven his family left for the Kurile Islands where he lived there for 3 years. In 1960 Vladimir and his family moved to Ivangorod - 150 km from St. Petersburg. Vladimir primarily paints in two areas: pure abstraction and still life painting.
Vladimir Titov Painter Biography - Online Art Gallery, http://www.gallerytoday.com/artist/vladimir-titov-378/ (8.04.2013).