Overview
Plot
Felix, an electrical engineer, retreats from a turbulent Soviet era—Chernenko's death, Gorbachev's rise, Ligachev's criticism of Yeltsin, shortages, queues, and the Afghanistan war—by becoming a street cleaner and hiding in a stuffy box room.
- Directors
- Vladimir Shamshurin
- Cast
- Leonid Lyutvinsky, Rimma Latypova, Yelena Starostina, Valeriy Barinov, Nikita Vysotsky, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Pavel Gudkov, Lyudmila Karaush, Sergei Karlenkov, Anatoliy Skoryakin, Egor Barinov, Sergey Rykusov, Sergey Kudryavtsev, Aleksandr Strizhenov
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Genre
- Drama
- Release date
- 1990-11-01
- Studios
- Sverdlovsk Film Studio, Goskino USSR
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Set during a complicated period in Soviet history—Chernenko's death, Gorbachev's succession, Ligachev's criticism of Yeltsin, widespread shortages, backstairs influence, queues, and the war in Afghanistan—electrical engineer Felix (L. Lutvinsky) escapes reality by becoming a street cleaner. He goes underground, locking himself in a stuffy cleaners' box room and pretending that nothing arouses his interest.
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