Billionaire Phil Stone (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) asks a playwright Michael Trent (Vadim Andreev), who is close to be a broke, with contract on a play. Trent agrees blindly because of advance. But topic of the play is happened to be the hardest thing he ever worked on. Trent's agent Audrey Wood (Nadezhda Rumyantseva) already contacted with an director of one of the Broadway theaters to bring upcoming play on stage . The topic Trent has taken up is, so happens to be, the nuclear war, an billionaire Stone hopes to prevent it with a theatrical production, a play for which Trent was hired.
This mini series based on same name play of Arthur Lee Kopit. A lot of Soviet directors used to take foreign literature sources when they was against Western point of view. It was safe way to conceal critics of domestic system.
Anyway the series itself is pretty boring and slow moving amusement. Funny thing that Arthur Kopit used a porn nickname for one of Pentagon's officials, and it's name is Deep Throat. Probably very actual for the 70's. But Soviet spectators never heard of this movie, so it's just didn't matter when this series came out.
Also picture have scene of gay pare of pentagon's analytics Jim and Edvin (Dmitriy Pevtsov and Sergey Kovalyov). Trent gets their contacts after chain of weird conversation with Washington's politicians. So Trent was invited by pare of young males on dinner. When he came in they started to cooks and speaks about their job of creating scenarios of nuclear war possible starting. They jumping like a monkeys around the kitchen around Trent and whole scene must underlining the madness of nuclear race.
Also during a movie there was a few scenes portraying racial discrimination in US. But as in US movies about Soviets of that time they kinda stuck in 1950's cliches.
So.. Actors are o.k. Old school. The picturing of U. S. filmed on Soviet studio was mediocre. We can see a lot of self made Rambo posters on the walls as a symbol of militarism and warmongering atmosphere. Cars are foreign, but mostly Japanese.
Dialogs seems was made rather for American audience in original, so they've lost a lot of it's meaning during translation process. There's a monologue of billionaire in the end about nuclear war, in which he confesses that he was a witness of a nuclear test and was horrified. Then there is 4th wall ruining scene, where all actors of movie showed standing in a row and watching in camera dressed as regular soviet people. This scene must spectator think that world's end is bad.
Seems that Soviet TV officials decided that World War is definitely bad, but not as bad as this series. So it was showed only ones in Soviet times. After that Tatiana Lioznova never returned to filming.
This mini series based on same name play of Arthur Lee Kopit. A lot of Soviet directors used to take foreign literature sources when they was against Western point of view. It was safe way to conceal critics of domestic system.
Anyway the series itself is pretty boring and slow moving amusement. Funny thing that Arthur Kopit used a porn nickname for one of Pentagon's officials, and it's name is Deep Throat. Probably very actual for the 70's. But Soviet spectators never heard of this movie, so it's just didn't matter when this series came out.
Also picture have scene of gay pare of pentagon's analytics Jim and Edvin (Dmitriy Pevtsov and Sergey Kovalyov). Trent gets their contacts after chain of weird conversation with Washington's politicians. So Trent was invited by pare of young males on dinner. When he came in they started to cooks and speaks about their job of creating scenarios of nuclear war possible starting. They jumping like a monkeys around the kitchen around Trent and whole scene must underlining the madness of nuclear race.
Also during a movie there was a few scenes portraying racial discrimination in US. But as in US movies about Soviets of that time they kinda stuck in 1950's cliches.
So.. Actors are o.k. Old school. The picturing of U. S. filmed on Soviet studio was mediocre. We can see a lot of self made Rambo posters on the walls as a symbol of militarism and warmongering atmosphere. Cars are foreign, but mostly Japanese.
Dialogs seems was made rather for American audience in original, so they've lost a lot of it's meaning during translation process. There's a monologue of billionaire in the end about nuclear war, in which he confesses that he was a witness of a nuclear test and was horrified. Then there is 4th wall ruining scene, where all actors of movie showed standing in a row and watching in camera dressed as regular soviet people. This scene must spectator think that world's end is bad.
Seems that Soviet TV officials decided that World War is definitely bad, but not as bad as this series. So it was showed only ones in Soviet times. After that Tatiana Lioznova never returned to filming.
