Three hunters, one corpse, zero alibis — Soviet guilt trip incoming.
Three of them hunted a bear, but a man was accidentally killed instead. The investigation must determine which of the hunters is responsible for this death. However, there is also a judgment of conscience — the most difficult judgment, because a compromise with one's own conscience never leads to good...
Acting
Kryuchkov's guilty silences say everything.
Direction
Tight 72 minutes, no wasted breath.
Writing
Dialogue that circles truth like vultures.
Director
Aida Manasarova
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Semyon Teterin
Oleg Zhakov
Dudyrev
Viktor Koltsov
Mityagin
Pavel Volkov
Mikhailo
Stepan Krylov
Donat
Konstantin Lylov
investigator
Anatoli Chemodurov
prosecutor
Valentina Telegina
people's judge
Zinaida Vorkul
Mityagina
Antonina Maksimova
Nina Golovina
doctor
Daniil Netrebin
Sergei
Nikolay Pogodin
tractor driver
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Villager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Khrushchev's Thaw, when Soviet cinema could finally question official morality without quite rejecting it.
Manasarova was one of few female directors in 1960s USSR; Skuybin 'co-directed' in name only due to studio politics.
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