Petya plays the dulcimer and loves his Muscovite with a Zaporozhets engine. Zhuzha loves twist and movies with Gerard Philip. The third one doesn't like to talk about himself. And it's better for others to keep quiet in his presence... The story unfolds in the 60s around a few days of the life of a young man named Petya, who fell in love with an older and more experienced girl who is unable to sort out her feelings.
Acting
Bondarchov's sweating, desperate Petya is peak uncomfortable.
Cinematography
Cramped interiors that breathe like a pressure cooker.
Direction
Flyangolts balances cruelty and tenderness like a knife's edge.
Director
Oleg Flyangolts
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Zaporozhets was notoriously unreliable, making it perfect symbolism for Petya's romantic prospects.
Flyangolts based the cramped communal apartment on his own Leningrad upbringing; every wall texture is autobiographical.
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