fantastic black and white photography.

An ongoing search for formal achievement, Guerman is interesting in everything except the essential. As usual.

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A bit of a drag. Some beautiful camera-work. Hard to care too much about characters we hardly get to know at all. It picks up in the second half. It's not devoid of humor but it has a certain dryness that made it hard for me to connect. All about them good ol' Stalinist days.