A Soviet TV exec investigates his dead colleague's 'accident' — and the camera keeps rolling on ugly truths.
Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming.
Acting
Filatov's hollow-eyed exhaustion carries 214 minutes
Direction
Khudyakov turns office corridors into psychological minefields
Writing
Dialogue so loaded even pleasantries feel threatening
Director
Konstantin Khudyakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konstantin Khudyakov shot this in actual Soviet state television studios, lending documentary creepiness to the fiction.
Released during glasnost but made under Brezhnev-era censorship, it's a rare Soviet work where systemic corruption isn't magically solved by Party wisdom.
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