A comprehensive review of poetics from view points of literary studies, cinematography and translation allows the author of the paper to derive a notion of audiovisual translation poetics. It is stated that while translating a film one has to consider a subjective poetic vision of the film director that determines the genre of the cinema of poetry in terms by P.P. Pasolini and J. Genevray. The author’s speculations are illustrated by a case study of the Barber of Siberia, a feature film by Nikita Mikhalkov.