A Soviet party boss throws a tantrum and hides at his mistress's house—patriotism is complicated.
Something went wrong with the chairman of a prosperous collective farm, both at home and in the general household. And when they sent a new secretary of the party organization, he got really angry and went to Alexandra. But he continued to worry about the collective farm and therefore always waited for news through her — how were they without him? And he knew that no one would come for him. But one day an accident happened on the collective farm, he was called and Alexandra could not keep him...
Acting
Kuznetsov's tantrum-to-tenderness whiplash as the fallen chairman.
Production
Propaganda-era sets that accidentally humanize the system.
Director
Yan Frid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Khrushchev's Thaw, the film's critique of bureaucratic vanity was daringly ambiguous—party officials as flawed humans, not heroes.
Director Yan Frid was later blacklisted for 'formalism'; this film's tonal messiness probably didn't help his case.
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