Television, drug of the nation

Possibly of interest to some, assessment of the film by somebody who used to work in the USSR's propaganda ministry.

The most genuine of them all are the uniformed MGB/NKVD officers. I have never seen in any foreign film such a brilliant depiction of men who combined the surly, brutal composure of professional executioners with the permanent expectation of a swift, and often painful, death from their own bosses (or just the guy next to them).