University chair chess with queens, horses and pawns, sharp moves and traps, analysis of options, strategy and tactics. Staffing rates, defense of dissertations and election by competition. The struggle of intellects against untruths. Cultural - with appeals by name - patronymic - thick immorality.
Hard work, where you can also get injured, albeit moral.
In the second half, the film is sluggish: subordinates discuss, allowing themselves clearly too much, which looks like an artistic exaggeration, how their overzealous head - with rebuff from his side with sluggishness - transgressed the moral law, setting him checkmate. It turns out that the competition for his position was initiated with the filing of the party chamber of the department: the party is at the post, observing morality regardless of faces. The author of the script (V. Vrublevskaya), the wife of the assistant to the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, is curious. In general, it looks like spiritual food made for feeding to Soviet intellectuals in the early 80s - not without pepper, which is interesting: a selective demagoguery a couple of times about the imperishable bonds and foundations of a cold-blooded character, in this one would give a hundred points forward and now, organic in every frame of Mikhail Ulyanov.
In the role of secretary flashed little-known Raisa Zaitseva.