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The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...
Direction
Fokin's claustrophobic framing traps you in meetings forever.
Acting
Dogileva's barely-contained rage steals every scene.

Director
Valery Fokin
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