Three dead nurses, three lunatic physicists, and one very tired detective who wishes he stayed home.
Three murders are committed in a sanatorium under the poetic name "Cherry Orchard". But the police inspector does not have to break his head for a long time in search of killers - he knows almost everything: who, when and how were killed, the killers - the only thing left to figure out are the reasons...
Acting
Plotnikov's Möbius is unhinged perfection.
Direction
Ryabokon stages Dürrenmatt like claustrophobic chamber music.
Director
Oleg Ryabokon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dürrenmatt wrote this in 1962 as Cold War paranoia peaked; the 1988 Soviet adaptation layers glasnost-era anxiety about state surveillance onto an already paranoid text.
The 'Cherry Orchard' name is pure Chekhov shade—this sanatorium destroys its inhabitants as surely as any Russian estate.
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