Soviet bureaucracy so absurd it'll make your Zoom meetings feel like action movies.
The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...
Direction
Fokin's claustrophobic framing traps you in meetings forever.
Acting
Dogileva's barely-contained rage steals every scene.
Director
Valery Fokin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a banned 1976 play; Fokin filmed it in secret during perestroika's brief openness window.
The title's irony—'Speak!' as command vs. reality of silenced farmers—was lost on censors until release.
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