Sofya Petrovna, a typist from a publishing house in Leningrad, has her only son repressed. In her publishing house, managers and ordinary employees were repressed. And Sofya Petrovna begins walking around the offices, trying to explain that a mistake has occurred.
Acting
Anna Kamenkova's face holds entire regimes of grief.
Direction
Sirenko makes offices feel like purgatory corridors.
Writing
Every 'comrade' lands like a threat disguised as solidarity.
Director
Arkadiy Sirenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Lydia Chukovskaya's samizdat novel written 1939-40, suppressed until 1962—the book itself was an act of maternal memory against erasure.
Chukovskaya refused to soften the ending despite pressure; the film honors this—Sofya's delusion is the only resistance available to the powerless.
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