A film about filming a film — meta before meta was cool, Soviet edition.
The young director tries to make a movie, following the script of the venerable playwright as much as possible.
Acting
Veteran Soviet actors playing veterans playing veterans.
Direction
Rubinchik blurs reality, set, and script with surgical precision.
Director
Valery Rubinchik
Valery Nikolaev
Виталий Сергеевич
Tatyana Lavrova
Татьяна Юрьевна
Stanislav Lyubshin
Георгий Иванович
Evgeniy Steblov
Лев Андреевич
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Николай Жильцов
Olga Sutulova
Ася
Aleksey Kortnev
Слава Гаврилин
Vladimir Nosik
Эрик
Yana Romanchenko
Elena Bushueva
Женя
Andrey Savostyanov
Саша
Anna Sinyakina
Dmitry Pavlenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot at the legendary Lenfilm Studios, where the cast essentially played exaggerated versions of their own industry struggles.
A rare post-Soviet film interrogating whether artistic freedom actually liberated anyone — the playwright's rigid script becomes a metaphor for systemic control.
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