While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government.
Acting
Dzhigarkhanyan carries decades of Soviet weight in every weary glance.
Production
Gloomy Moscow locations that reek of institutional rot.
Director
Yuriy Moroz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after the Soviet Union's collapse, it captures a nation terrified of its own archives becoming public.
The 'Black Square' title references both Malevich's painting and the redacted documents that drive the plot — the production designer hid actual Soviet-era blacked-out papers in set dressing.
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