Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town.
Acting
Parra's Konstantinovich: charming monster you can't look away from.
Production
Authentic Siberian construction site—cold seeps through the screen.
Director
Anatoliy Granik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the brief glasnost thaw, this was Granik's savage autopsy of Brezhnev-era stagnation—so incendiary it barely screened outside film festivals.
Parra reportedly gained 30 pounds and learned welding to play Konstantinovich; the cast lived in actual worker barracks. The exhaustion you see is real.
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