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With your own hands

1956

A sober, talky Soviet drama of bureaucratic conflict, where quiet arguments over plans and principles carry more weight than any action.

Overview
The secretary of the district committee Borzov, trying to fulfill the plan, does not care about the rise of the entire economy. The second secretary of the district committee Martynov does not agree with his methods of work...

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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • work
  • corruption
  • morality
  • politics
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Directed by
Vitaliy Voytetskiy
Starring
Andrei Goncharov, Kira Fyodorova, Viktor Viktorov, Boris Chirkov, Zoya Fyodorova, Yevgeny Gurov, Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya, Ivan Vasilyenko
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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