Reviewer:
Chris Kuykendall from Austin, TX United States
Pleasantly surprised, I liked this better than The House on Main Street (Czechoslovakia), the Oscar winner in the Foreign-Language film category, or any other non-U.S. movie from the same year (1965). The black-and-white cinematography by Margarita Pilikhina is impressive. Apparently this was filmed during the brief "peaceful coexistence" thaw in (1) the Cold War and (2) Soviet politics, before the Cuban missile crisis and/or the Berlin Wall. For a U.S. time-period counterpart, see the madcap comedy One, Two, Three (1961).