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
Aleksey Petrenko
Слава Кулигин
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
жена Кулигина
Georgi Burkov
Маслаков
Fyodor Odinokov
дядя Коля
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Маслакова
Yelena Kuzmina
Alevtina Ivanovna, mat' Kuligina
Gennady Dyudyaev
Gusev, sobutyl'nik Kuligina
Mariya Vinogradova
Klava, bufetchitsa
Igor Efimov
mayor militsii
Yefim Kamenetsky
nachal'nik kolonii
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.
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