Temporary Difficulties (2018)

Plot Summary

Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy’s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person. “You’re not a patient, you have temporary difficulties”. Eating, getting dressed, going downstairs and walking up the front door steps — every day the child spends hours on such simple household tasks. At school he is mocked by his peers, and there is no help to expect. The boy has coped with the illness, but started hating the father. When he finished school, Sasha left home and stopped all contact with the father. Over the past 15 years he has become the best business consultant in the country, who has helped hundreds of businesses out of crisis. “You have no a crisis, you have temporary difficulties”, — Sasha would say to his clients, having gone along a difficult path himself. And one day, a new order unexpectedly gives him the opportunity to settle accounts with the father...

Full Cast & Characters

Rinal Mukhametov

Sasha Kovalev

Ivan Okhlobystin

Sasha Kovalev's father

Ilya Ryazanov

Sasha Kovalev in childhood

Viktoriya Solovyova

Yan Tsapnik

Irina Pegova

Irina Bezryadnova

Nicholay Kovbas

Yury Dushin

Robert, businessman

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