Five days of blizzard, one Soviet boss, and a construction site ready to explode. Bureaucracy meets Arctic hell.
The plot is based on stories by B. Gorbachev: "The Trial of Stepan Grokhot," "Birth on Cucumber Land," "The Merchant Labas," and "The Great Flood." The main circumstance of the plot is five days of blizzard that began immediately after the arrival of a new boss at the Arctic construction site. The time of the action is 1935. A new manager arrives at a construction site that is in a state of crisis.
Acting
Oleg Dal's desperate intensity anchors every scene.
Direction
Simonov traps you in the blizzard with them.
Director
Aleksei Simonov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from four separate stories by B. Gorbachev, stitched together like a Frankenstein of Soviet misery.
The 1935 setting places it during Stalin's second five-year plan, when Arctic construction was both propaganda glory and human meat grinder.
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