A homeless rebel learns that fighting the system is easier than fighting yourself.
Young homeless man Luke is not going to obey the laws established by his homeless colleagues, as well as the arbitrariness of the foreman when he finds himself in forced labor. But only resistance to his own kind does not give Luke anything: without housing and means of subsistence, and, finally, without basic rights to protect the individual, he no longer sees any light in this life.
Acting
Efremov's exhausted eyes do all the talking.
Direction
Zanussi's clinical observation of human breakdown.
Director
Andrzej Czarnecki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1991 USSR collapse, mirrors real displacement of millions suddenly homeless. Director Czarnecki was documentarian first; this blurs fiction and social record.
Mikhail Efremov came from legendary Soviet acting dynasty; his casting adds meta-layer of inherited privilege observing poverty.
SU
