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The time of action is the beginning of perestroika. A young girl, an employee of the LOMO association, an incorrigible idealist, endures a serious unequal struggle with the plant management for the ideals in which she recklessly believes. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital, they say that her “straightforward character” is a disease, that she has “truth-seeking syndrome.”
The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?
In the yard of the XXI century. But even today, people continue to face the bureaucratic system at various levels. From birth to death, he devotes his precious time to walking through the authorities and communicating with representatives of different levels of government. In St. Petersburg, in the Reception of citizens, an official conducts a reception on housing issues. For many who are desperate to achieve a solution to their problem, he is the last hope. All questions are difficult, there are a lot of dissatisfied people, but we need to find a common language with everyone and help solve the problem.
Russian Russian Thought, a newspaper founded by Russian emigration in France, and donated to the Russian State Library, tells the story of the film. Among the characters of the film, closely connected with the fate of the newspaper, Count P. Sheremetyev, Prince A. Trubetskoy, the oldest boarder of the "Russian House" Ekaterina de Geerts, the current editorial board of the newspaper. The film tells about the role of this printing body as a link between the abandoned homeland and the Russian diaspora abroad.
