Soviet roads are deadly, but this accident was *designed* to kill.
Acting
Galina Belyaeva's ice queen performance—every smile is a threat.
Direction
Kosarev wrings Hitchcock tension from Gorbachev-era drabness.
Writing
Dialogue so loaded, characters basically confess in subtext.
Director
Aleksandr Kosarev
Yuriy Solomin
Zakhar Petrovich Izmaylov
Galina Belyaeva
Zina Izmaylova
Pyotr Velyaminov
Gleb Artemyevich Samsonov
Vadim Spiridonov
Yevgeniy Ivanovich Ogorodnik
Svetlana Toma
Sofya Anatolyevna Samsonova
Ivan Lapikov
Izmaylov's Chief
Vladimir Andreyev
Sergey Fyodorovich
Larisa Dolina
Larisa
Nikolay Burlyaev
Slava Zubtsov
Rimma Markova
Anna Semyonovna Zubtsova
Viktor Shulgin
Pavel Vasilyevich Grachyov
Aleksandr Serov
Aleksandr Nikolaevich - pevets
Aleksandr Kosarev
Fadey Fadeyevich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during perestroika's death rattle, the film's rotting institutions mirrored the USSR's own collapse.
The 'souvenir' of the title refers to a damning piece of evidence that appears and vanishes like a ghost.
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