Aleksandr Gavronskiy

On the personal and public in the life of Soviet youth.

A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.

The director of the state farm Giant falls in love with a journalist. The heroine’s friend opposes the romance. The journalist demands a lot of attention in the relationship, while the director is too busy with work. The film was completed only in a rough cut but was banned and destroyed. It is now lost. The director was arrested and subsequently spent nearly twenty years in labor camps.