Re: Socialist Horror(or comedy?)? Re: Vampire movie name game

Jim  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> David Matthews wrote:
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> > "Your Pal Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> Elena Nakashima wrote:
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> >> > Did Soviet Union produce any decent slapstick comedies? Or
> >> > sophisticated comedies? Or was that considered too frivolous and
> >> > capitalist?
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> >> Pudovkin's Chess Fever evokes Harold Lloyd.
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> >> Brian
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> > I can't recall any Soviet Union comedies but obviously they had some
> > appreciation of slapstick comedy.
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> See "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions" or "Gentlemen of Fortune". Both
> are quite good and classic Soviet era comedies. For comedy on a deeper
> level, there is "Heart of a Dog" based on the novel by Bulgakov. It was
> released for television, but there are video tapes available in the US.
> It's as wicked as wicked comedies get.


I would dearly like to get my hands on "Heart of a Dog", it's one of
my favourite books. I don't understand how the authorities could have
allowed that on TV.