A funeral, a vanished manuscript, and the friend you betrayed. Soviet guilt hits different.
The funeral of the next General Secretary K.U. Chernenko. Sergey Eremin, an editorial worker, decides to finally publish the story of his friend, whom he once betrayed. But the manuscript has disappeared, and Sergei decides to have a frank conversation with the author.
Acting
Simonov's unraveling is quietly devastating
Direction
Safaraliev turns bureaucratic spaces into moral arenas
Writing
Dialogue that lands like an indictment
Director
Oleg Safaraliev
Vladimir Simonov
Eremin
Yevgeniya Simonova
Lyusya
Vadim Zakharchenko
Vladlen Petrovich, Lucy's father
Andrey Gradov
Lebed'
Pavel Belozerov
Boroda, drug Yeromina
Boris Ivanov
Al'bert Grigor'yevich, glavnyy redaktor izdatel'stva
Tatyana Gavrilova
Nina Andreyevna, sotrudnitsa redaktsii
Yana Poplavskaya
Lenochka, sotrudnitsa redaktsii
Elena Finogeeva
Shmeleva
Aleksandr Yatsko
Maykl
Gleb Plaksin
Fabris, frantsuzskiy khudozhnik
Raisa Kurkina
mat' Yeromina
Lidiya Savchenko
rabotnitsa stolovoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during glasnost but set at Chernenko's 1985 funeral—the briefest Soviet reign, symbol of stagnation's end.
The 'disappeared manuscript' mirrors countless real Soviet texts destroyed or locked in vaults; Eremin's search is meta-commentary on recovered memory.
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