Overview
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.
Cast
- Aleksei Ananishnov as Malyanov
- Eskender Umarov as Vecherovsky
- Irina Sokolova as Malyanov's Sister
- Vladimir Zamanskiy as Snegovoy
- Kirill Dudkin as Gluchov
- Aleksey Yankovskiy as Snegovoy's Father
- Viktor Belovolskiy as Gubar
- Sergei Krylov as Little Boy