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A Man of a Retinue

1987 · 91 min

A quiet, observant drama that slowly tightens around workplace politics and the ache of losing favour.

Overview
According to the story of the same name by Vladimir Makanin. Mitya Rodiontsev, a young employee of the research institute, for some time now became one of those who were in the close circle of the secretary of the director Aglaya Andreyevna and felt well protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Having become a “retinue”, Mitya was no longer engaged in science, but was busy for those who needed him, openly respected him and saw him as a future leader. But once Rodiontsev was not invited to the director’s office for a weekly tea party...

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • identity
  • isolation
  • work
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Andris Rozenbergs
Written by
Valery Todorovsky
Starring
Andrey Ilin, Vija Artmane, Valentina Telichkina, Dalvin Shcherbakov, Ernst Romanov, Vera Bykova, Boris Akhanov, Pēteris Liepiņš
Music
Juris Karlsons
Cinematography
Valdis Eglītis
Runtime
91 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Latvian

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