The Manuscript

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Aleksandr Muratov

Status Released

Release Date 1992-05-01

Storyline

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...