The Servant

Pavel Klyuev is a choir conductor in the provinces. He is known where he lives. He has come close to the title of honoured artist. One day an elderly man comes to his door. The man is called Andrei Gudionov. Gudionov used to be one of the powerful men of the city. In those years Klyuev was his driver and his servant. The man once set the course of his life. Years have passed and Klyuev has risen. But beside his old master he is a servant still. The account moves in two separate times. Flashbacks cut in often. Aleksandr Mindadze wrote the screenplay. Oleg Borisov and Yuri Belyayev take the leads, with Irina Rozanova and Aleksey Petrenko also in the cast, in Vadim Abdrashitov’s Soviet film of 1988.