The Manuscript

The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...

• Aleksandr MuratovDirector
• Lydia ChukovskayaWriter

• Vladimir IvashovCast
• Irina BrazgovkaCast
• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-ShukshinaCast
• Aleksandr KalyaginCast
• Zinoviy GerdtCast
• Boris KlyuevCast
• Zoya BuryakCast
• Andrey ZaykovCast
• Khasan BidzhiyevCast
• Margarita ShubinaCast