A Soviet scientist learns that rural life is its own kind of laboratory — messy, uncontrolled, and weirdly beautiful.
A young scientist is sent to the deep countryside immediately after his university graduation...
Acting
Tashkov's deadpan genius makes every sigh comedic poetry.
Direction
Fridberg finds absurdity in mud and bureaucracy.
Director
Isaak Fridberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during perestroika's thaw, it subtly mocks the Soviet 'assigned placement' system that shipped urban graduates to rural jobs.
Director Fridberg was a documentary filmmaker; this was his only fiction feature, hence that weirdly observational camera that just... watches people exist.
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