A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventually commit a crime.
Acting
Petrenko's physical descent — watch his shoulders drop scene by scene.
Direction
Asanova's cramped compositions trap you in Slava's suffocating world.

Director
Dinara Asanova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Asanova was a rare female director in 1970s USSR; her male protagonists often critique Soviet ideals of productive masculinity. This was her second feature.
The title 'Trouble' (Nepriyatnost) understates — the original implies petty inconvenience, making Slava's tragedy almost bureaucratically dismissed by society.