A Soviet trucker movie that's somehow more emotional than your entire therapy journey.
Truck drivers traveling from Odessa to Tbilisi. The first one is an elderly man, this is his last trip before retirement. The second is a newcomer, who has sat behind the wheel for the first time... Different people meet on the way of the drivers, villages and towns are left behind. Having overcome the pass, the convoy of cars enters Tbilisi, having reached the final goal of its difficult journey. The old driver gladly passes the labor baton to the newcomer, who has become a full member of the drivers' team.
Direction
Gasparov finds poetry in truck stops and mountain passes.
Acting
Plotnikov's weathered face tells decades without dialogue.
Director
Samvel Gasparov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Brezhnev stagnation, this glorifies proletarian labor while quietly mourning what's being lost — classic Soviet double-speak.
Gasparov shot much of this on actual trucking routes with real drivers; the Odessa-Tbilisi highway was notorious for bandits and mechanical failures.
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