Two friends, one boat, zero faith in the system — post-Soviet friendship sinks beautifully.
About the fates of two friends who got carried away with photography: one became a successful businessman and buys a steamer, the other, after serving his sentence on an unfair charge, does not expect good from the future, does not believe the present.
Acting
Kalyagin and Karachentsov — Soviet legends, devastating restraint.
Cinematography
Photography within photography; frames that judge the framers.
Writing
Galin's sparse dialogue where silence screams loudest.
Director
Aleksandr Galin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Putin's early years, it captures the specific grief of 1990s Russia — friendships destroyed by who adapted to capitalism and who got crushed by it.
Karachentsov was already battling the cancer that would kill him; his frailty in the role was partly real, making his character's exhaustion unbearably authentic.
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