New Customer? The satire of the Tsarist regime is expressed so subtly that it was clearly just enough to satisfy the Soviet censors but mild enough for us to say that this is not really a political film at all. Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches. The Diamond Arm. Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
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