The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies

Re:The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies by Mikhail_Edoshin on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:45AM (#26383192)

Soviet spy movies are like James Bond written by Checkhov :) For example, there's "The fate of the secret agent" (1970) [1] and while it depicts a spy, it's very much not a James Bond type of guy. E.g. he only gets a single woman in the movie and he actually loves her.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314736/

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Re:The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies by gumby on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:17PM (#26388348)

Thanks, I'll give that a try! The very differences are the point; if it were nothing but a reshoot of an existing trope that wouldn't be so interesting. So your "like James Bond written by Checkhov" is the kind of approach that would be interesting.

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