One of the best films of recent years in the USSR. Being a game, the film is remarkable natural-looking characters with natural behavior in the then familiar surroundings, especially colorful Alexander Mironov (“Tolik”, in many ways “made” the film character of the second plan). The images of typical co-citizens of the 80s forever captured Yuri Nazarov and Lyudmila Zaitsev. Brilliantly orchestrated and played a complex episode with simultaneous interrogation by two interrogators on two cases in a cramped office.
Very well guessed the place of action – Donbass Mariupol, then still in Soviet Zhdanov, industrial-port-railway and very proletarian, which, still pre-war, have a chance to look. With typical Soviet typical residential high-rise buildings, hardly radically modernized its appearance over the next 30 years since the late 80s, when to imagine that it would also become military-strategically important - so much so that up to the destruction, and even not at the hands of malicious aggressors from NATO - was unrealistic.
The film seems to mark the final rejection of the imitation of optimism, probably for Soviet cinema. Then came into its rights the genre of “black”, which has not exhausted itself, despite everything, and to this day.