A kid so desperate for a dad he collects strangers like Pokémon cards.
Little Sasha is growing up without a father, but he really wants to have one. He has already called three strangers "dad." One day, a friend of Fenechka's, Fyodor, came to visit her, and Sasha wouldn't leave his side for a moment...
Acting
Anton Tabakov's devastating child performance.
Direction
Krasnopolskiy & Uskov's restrained emotional precision.
Director
Vladimir Krasnopolskiy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Soviet Thaw, this quietly subverts socialist realist optimism by showing systemic failure through one child's eyes.
Anton Tabakov became a major Soviet star; this was his breakthrough at age 9, discovered in a Moscow children's theater.
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