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The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.Read moreLess
The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.
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The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Aleksandr FilippenkoThe General Secretary
Olga MakeevaSasha
Inna ChurikovaZhena Genseka
Igor ChernevichRodionov
Sergey GilevMolodoy
Vladimir SteklovMinistr
Irina KupchenkoMat Sashi
Sergey StyopinUrolog
Mariya ShalaevaMedsestraExplore the crew
- Director
- Rezo Gigineishvili
- Screenplay
- Rezo Gigineishvili
- Editor
- Georgy Isaakyan
- Producer
- Sergey Yahontov
- Director of Photography
- Petr Bratersky
- Producer
- Archil Gelovani
- Writer
- Alexander Rodionov