Synopsis
The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Valeriy Kropotov is CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad who is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government: building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksandr OzhegovWriter
- Edgar DubrovskyWriter
- Igor SheshukovDirector
- Iskander KhamrayevDirector
Cast
- Kirill LavrovCEO Valeri Petrovich Kropotov
- Elena PrudnikovaValya
- Andrey SmirnovKarandin
- Osvalds BērziņšValdis
- Vladimir EryominSavitsky
- Lyudmila ArininaNatalia
- Galina FiglovskayaGolubeva
- Zoya BogomolovaAlexandra
- Mariya LavrovaMasha
- Vadim YakovlevAntonov
- Artyom KarapetyanVazgen
- Petr ShelokhonovYusov
Stills
Themes
soviet unionperestroikacommunism1980strainssoviet politics