Soviet office politics so petty it'll make your LinkedIn drama look like Shakespeare.
An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.
Acting
Bronevoy's passive-aggressive boss is a masterclass in suppressed rage.
Direction
Efros stretches three months into existential eternity.
Director
Anatoli Efros
Anatoli Grachyov
новый начальник 26-го цеха
Yola Sanko
Римма
Leonid Bronevoy
Гаврила Романович Полуэктов
Yuriy Likhachyov
Петр Зекенович Сапсакаев
Anna Antonenko
Нина Васильевна Щеголева
Konstantin Ageyev
Валентик
Natalya Medvedeva
Сонюшка
Boris Kudryavtsev
Анатолий Васильевич Плужин
Semyon Sokolovsky
Глеб Николаевич Рябинин
Nikolai Volkov Ml.
Захар Леонидович Манагаров
Isaak Kastrel
Вячеслав Сергеевич Подключников
Arkadiy Peselev
Николай Андреевич Пухов
Aleksandr Shirshov
Тимофей Иванович Грамоткин
Kirill Glazunov
Олег Владимирович Быков
Mariya Andrianova
Надежда Ивановна Завьялова
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brezhnev stagnation, the film's corporate dread mirrored Soviet society's suffocation—ambition itself became suspect.
The title's irony deepens: he's outsider everywhere—old factory, new one, ultimately to himself.
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