The modest and indecisive Lebedev in his dreams sees himself as strong and courageous. Mentally, he stands up for an unfairly demoted colleague, but in reality does nothing to help him. Oleg has been following the girl he likes for a whole year and is unable to force himself to get to know her. It is becoming more and more difficult for two Lebedevs to get along in one person ...
Acting
Retsepter's physical comedy of repressed longing
Direction
Gabay's dream sequences blur reality without cheap tricks
Director
Genrikh Gabay
Vladimir Retsepter
Oleg Lebedev
Aleksey Eybozhenko
Valka Smirnov
Natalya Zorina
Sveta
Mikhail Derzhavin
Boris Granovskiy
Leonid Bronevoy
Yevgeniy Viktorovich
Leonid Satanovskiy
Aleksey Potapov
Georgi Slabinyak
Valeriyan Barov
Georgi Kavtaradze
Gogi
Kakhi Kavsadze
Nikolay Penkov
sotrudnik NII
Natalya Rudnaya
Ira
Lev Durov
passazhir v Metro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Khrushchev Thaw, when Soviet cinema briefly allowed psychological interiority over socialist realist heroism. The 'little man' genre peaked here.
The stairwell scene where dream-Lebedev confronts real-Lebedev was shot in a single take after Retsepter insisted, spending three days practicing the blocking.
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