He has appearance, abilities, intelligence, but exchanged everything for women, bringing them mostly grief, deceiving them and extracting everything he could from those who were older and richer. But then they saw through him and sent him out as a choreographer to the provinces, where he literally died. There arose a natural, but at the same time unnatural friendship and enmity with a drug addict nicknamed Buryy (Brown). This relationship brought Fuflo (Junk), as Buryy nicknamed him, to murder.
Acting
Rudensky's physical vanity curdling into desperation.
Direction
Lebedev frames the Black Sea like a trap.
Director
Aleksei Lebedev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Yalta during perestroika's collapse, the film captures Soviet Ukraine's tourist economy rotting from within. The 'provincial' assignment Viktor dreads was once a prized sanatorium destination.
Rudensky was a legitimately trained dancer; his choreographer background made Viktor's failed career hit harder. Romantsov, who played Buryy, died of an overdose in 2000.
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