read the comment i be strike by the obvious effect this wonderful film have on viewer . but and how can you watch this movie and not reflect that the artful dialog be a subtle and oh so daring rebuke to the authority in control in what be then the ussr at that moment in history . it wasn not the soul only in the time and place of the action be reveal . the question and superficially ask and be nakedly provocative when direct to the here and now . who be the real collaborator . i marvel that the writer stay out of prison . i read somewhere that great stress can be a catalyst for produce great art . this film be a masterpiece of misdirection and apparently point one way and while ask the audience to look over my shoulder and at what i be really talk about . what courage .