most people will consider that yul brynner great performance be a the ruler of siam in the king and i. certainly it give him a wide variety of mood to test his ability in and from comic and to tragic and from eager to learn to dominate to hateful . it also show him to advantage a a talk singer and a dancer . finally and a it be also his tony award win performance from broadway and the film allow u to capture something of the great broadway performance as well . but he do other movie that show his talent as well a the king and i. his comic turn in once more with feeling be quite nice . so be his performance a general bunin in anastasia and or his ramses in the ten commandment . yet he come terribly close to be a 1950s successor to eric von stroheim a the man you love to hate . a certain vulnerability in his acting and role endear him to the movie public and even after his best year a a star be behind him and he retreat more and more to repeat the king of siam on television and the stage . to me and his fine performance be in this 1959 drama with deborah kerr and jason robards jr. and robert morley and e. g. marshall and anne jackson and and ronnie howard . the film be set in pretty modern time the powder keg that be hungary in 1956 and when briefly it look like the iron curtain be about to collapse there under the reform of hungarian patriot imre nagy and his supporter . but the hungarian revolution collapse due to bad timing . the russian and their polish and east german ally send tank in to crush the revolt ( and arrest and execute nagy and other reformer ) . the west stood by and let this happen represent england and france have get catch in the suez crisis and and the u. s. have berate them and israel for attack egypt . due to the action of three close ally of the u. s. and the west find it hard to condemn the overkill of the soviet union . it be an unfortunate situation and and the hungarian have never forget how they be abandon in it . in the film brynner be major surov and a russian intelligence officer who be watch for some of the leader of the hungarian revolt and one of whom be paul kedes ( jason robards ) . kedes may be get assistance from some westerner on a bus tour through hungary and lead by robert morley ( include marshall and jackson and and howard and and kerr ) . the latter be be keep in a hotel while their bus be be repair and and brynner mingles with them and hop for a lead to the whereabouts of robards . but brynner be human he try to be ingratiate with these people ( all of whom see him a a monster ) and and in sequence and when he have drunk a little too much and he confront them with the question that have bother historian since 1945 represent how be it ( even if one note that russia have stalin in charge ) that relation between russia and the west collapse so quickly . the ally and on the whole and have work well together from 1941 to 1945 and but after yalta and potsdam all type of mutual suspicion just erupt . do they have to . surov be a good officer and but he be tear in half by loyalty to the communist regime in the soviet union and in hungary that he support and and his grow fondness towards kerr and who be hide robards but be also willing to note the more human side of the russian major . and a the film reach it tragic climax and we watch a surov have to decide if he will follow his sense of duty and or take pity on kerr and robards and and the other westerner who want to leave . it become a true struggle for him and one that he may win far too late . it be a great film about a tragedy of post war europe and and possibly the most thoughtful role yul brynner ever portray .