Prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival Pacific Meridian de Vladivostok, 2003
Plot synopsis
"...The events are set in the late 1980s, during the period of factory strikes that were rooted in attempts to privatize state-owned enterprises. The factory stands divided between two bureaucrat-bosses who seemingly haggle over the ownership of the factory: part of the staff sides with Savchuk, the other with Markin. It transpires gradually that they have long struck a deal and use the factory workers for their own, common, political goals... "
Birgit Beumers http://www.kinokultura.com/reviews/R73magnetic.html