They guessed exactly.
A lot of films about the future were made in the USSR. The adventures of Alisa Selezneva alone are worth it. But none of the science fiction films managed to predict the future as accurately as in the drama about a traffic police officer, filmed in 1982.
The painting “Traffic Inspector” tells the story of the present. But in its spirit, the images shown on the screen, and even the plot, it anticipates the difficult times of the nineties.
Nikita Mikhalkov’s character, Valentin Pavlovich Trunov, believes that everything is allowed to him, because he is the director of a service station. An honest and incorruptible traffic police inspector, played by Sergei Nikonenko, insists that everyone is equal before the law.
The film ends very optimistically: policeman Zykin still “defeats” the offender. But the original idea was different. The negative hero had to kill the fearless traffic cop – everyone outplayed it at the last moment.
