Soviet youth dragged into moral reckoning—no heroes, just complicity and concrete.
Against the backdrop of facts taken from modern reality, the idea is advanced that youth should actively participate in building society, and feelings of complacency and irresponsibility are condemned from a civic standpoint.
Direction
Mchedlidze's unflinching eye for institutional rot.
Production
Crushingly authentic late-Soviet urban decay.
Director
Nana Mchedlidze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during perestroika but feels like a glasnost warning shot—criticizing youth apathy while the USSR itself collapsed from exactly that.
Director Nana Mchedlidze was one of few Georgian women directing features under Soviet rule; this remains her most internationally obscure work.
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