Soviet bureaucrats vs. factory workers: who's really the villain here?
Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.
Acting
Taratorkin's exhausted everyman energy is devastating
Direction
Two directors somehow create one suffocating vision
Director
Pavel Khomsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Brezhnev's stagnation, the film's factory setting mirrored real Soviet industrial decline. Audiences reportedly wept.
Khomsky and Zavadsky were father and son — their generational divide arguably shapes the film's sympathy for workers over bureaucrats.
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