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Synopsis
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.
Aleksei Ananishnov
Cast
Eskender Umarov
Cast
Irina Sokolova
Cast
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Cast
Kirill Dudkin
Cast
Aleksey Yankovskiy
Cast
Viktor Belovolskiy
Cast
Sergei Krylov
Cast
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director
Yuriy Arabov
Writer
Pyotr Kadochnikov
Writer
Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Writer
Boris Strugatskiy
Writer

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