Name: The Red Arrow
Director: Iskander Khamrayev
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1987-03-25
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 4.0
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov, Osvalds Bērziņš, Vladimir Eryomin

A Soviet CEO loses everything on a train—and maybe finds himself. Perestroika hits different at 80 mph.

late-Soviet bureaucratic decaymidlife crisis on railscorporate backstabbing with vodka

Overview

Drama History

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad. He is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government; building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.