

Soviet courtroom drama where the system itself is on trial — and nobody's innocent.
Acting
Oleg Zhakov's weary judge — authority crumbling in real-time.
Direction
Faintsimmer's tight framing turns a courtroom into a cage.

Director
Alexandr Faintsimmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brezhnev's stagnation era, the film's bureaucratic cynicism was bold — state-approved nihilism disguised as crime procedural.
Faintsimmer was primarily a theatre director; this explains the chamber-piece intensity and actor-focused blocking.