Soviet factory bosses hire therapists to fix capitalism... inside communism. Chaos ensues.
Psychologist Petrov and sociologist Burtsev are invited by Basov, the director of a factory, to study the basic problem of production.
Acting
Menshov's exhausted everyman psychologist
Direction
Karasik's surgical satire of Soviet workplace culture
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes corporate jargon
Director
Yuli Karasik
Vladimir Menshov
Petrov
Lyudmila Chursina
Olga
Aleksandr Lazarev
Konstantinov
Evgeniy Karelskikh
Prokopenko
Elena Proklova
Tatyana
Pavel Pankov
Basov
Nina Urgant
Olympiada
Yevgeniya Khanayeva
Lyudmila Ivanovna
Evgeni Burenkov
Samsonov
Valeri Khlevinsky
Fedor Uvarov
Valery Afanasyev
Pavel Vinnik
Iryna Bunina
Natalya Gurzo
Vladimir Gusev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Brezhnev stagnation, the film smuggled sharp workplace critique past censors by framing it as 'production problems.'
Vladimir Menshov later directed Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears — apparently Soviet misery was his whole brand.
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