On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Directed by Roman Balayan
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Letterboxd
3.8 / 5
Cast
Oleg Yankovskiy
Sergei Makarov
Oleg Menshikov
Alisa's Friend
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Larisa Yurevna
Oleg Tabakov
Nikolai Pavlovich
Lyudmila Ivanova
Nina Sergeyevna
Lyudmila Zorina
Natasha Makarova
Elena Kostina
Alisa
Lyubov Rudneva
Svetlana
Alexander Adabashyan
The Sculptor
Nikita Mikhalkov
The Director
Sergei Ivanov
Crew
Viktor Merezhko
Writer
Vadym Khrapachov
Original Music Composer
Vilen Kalyuta
Director of Photography
Popular Reviews
12 reviews
duelyantka
8.0★ · 05/08/26
my worst fucking nightmare
my worst fucking nightmare
polina
9.0★ · 12/11/25
reminded me a lot of Camus' characters. an attempt to justify reality for oneself by rejecting commitments and responsibility, which invariably hurts other people. it would make things easier, but it doesn't make anyone happy. because you can flee moral values and attachments to individuals or circumstances, but you will never run away from the human inside yourself.
reminded me a lot of Camus' characters. an attempt to justify reality for oneself by rejecting commitments and responsibility, which invariably hurts other people. it would make things easier, but it doesn't make anyone happy. because you can flee moral values and attachments to individuals or circumstances, but you will never run away from the human inside yourself.