退化 (1980)

It was the debut of young director at Russia's oldest "Lenfilm" studio. The basis of short films put the story of contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov, though, which removed his name from the title, as a writer, he said, were "entirely different motives for writing this story." Director of prose in his film took only one motive that will attract his usual - the motif of the "transition period": in this case, the transition from the helm to prostrate submission. Traffic inspector, demoted to the taxi driver - accidentally whipped egg primary link in the chain of power. It was the first sign of the coming breakup of the entire system. But not so much surprising that motive in those pre-perestroika years, but with what a close, inside man was revealed, feeling a loss of power as a catastrophic injustice.