About one day in the life of the exiled revolutionary Suren Spandaryan, who was on the list of “especially dangerous persons”. About the intense moral duel between the hero and the tsar’s lieutenant.
Commentaries
The film "Exiled No. 011," says the director of the film Laert Vsgarshyan, "tells only one episode of the short but bright life of Spandaryan. The action takes place in the Turukhansk region in the spring of 1916. Shortly before this, the Siberian gendarme authorities receive a petition signed by almost all the exiled settlers of the region and containing a demand to transfer Spandaryan, who is ill with tuberculosis, to a more moderate climate zone. In an effort to refute the legitimacy of such a demand and detain Spandaryan in Siberia, the local secret police send him for a medical examination to a medical scientist who has a reputation as a humane and independent person. The authorities' plan is to use all means of influence to obtain the negative conclusion they need from the doctor.
The moral conflict that arises on the basis of this situation reveals not only the atmosphere of those days, but also the motives of Spandaryan himself, who uses his stay at the doctor's estate to carry out an important conspiratorial action.
The script written by Vadim Meliksetyan is based on historical documents: letters and party orders of V.I. Lenin, memoirs of N.K. Krupskaya, correspondence of S.S. Spandaryan, materials from the archives of the former tsarist secret police.
“Soviet Screen”, No. 3, February 1978
