Chief of the General Department (1952–1960); Head of the Institute (1960–1966)
Katya, una joven bibliotecaria, cree en el amor, pero sus ideales son aplastados por la realidad. Después de una serie de relaciones decepcionantes, Katya finalmente encuentra ternura y comprensión en los brazos de su colega, una periodista llamada Tanya. Pero luego interviene el Primer Departamento: los servicios de seguridad del Estado ven esta relación como inaceptable para una mujer soviética.
Chief of the General Department (1952–1960); Head of the Institute (1960–1966)
It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven't seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through Maria he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, Dau's wife, returns home.
A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. The KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of prominent scientists and their cruel and insane research. One day, a radical ultra right-wing group arrives in the laboratory under the guise of test subjects. They get a task - to eradicate the decaying elements of the Institute’s community, and if needs be, destroy the fragile world of secret Soviet science.
