977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…
Direction
Khomeriki's clinical eye turns desire into data points.
Cinematography
Bleak post-Soviet spaces that feel like a failed utopia.
Acting
Korshunova's Rita: curious, cruel, devastatingly human.
Director
Nikolay Khomeriki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's brief 2000s 'new wave' — filmmakers using genre to process post-Soviet ideological collapse. The number 977 itself has no mathematical significance; the absurdity is the point.
Golubeva's final role before her death. Her Tamara carries real-world weight — a woman already half-ghost, watching younger people make her mistakes.
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