Poljoty vo sně i najavu

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Sergey discovers that neither his job, his family, nor his comely lover are able to give his life meaning, and that his only intense moments occur in dreams that increasingly wrench him from reality. This Soviet hit from the early 1980s continues to offer a strong statement of a generation that was allowed to dream but couldn't really live. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)