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Among them is Georgi Daneliya, who made the appealing, comic Autumn Marathon (1979). It is about a teacher-translator trying to balance the requirements of his overextended double career with the equally pressing demands of a suspicious wife and a possessive mistress-a situation familiar to members of the Western bourgeoisie. The movie offers an agreeable insight into the life of the educated, privileged class in the Soviet Union...
...Daneliya is working safe terrain here: the romantic comedy. There are other comfortable places for a Soviet director to work-screen adaptations of classic novels and plays, for example. Pictures that show the suffering and steadfastness of ordinary citizens during World War II also win the approval of the editors -and of the public. As the Revolution of 1917-which provided the first Soviet film makers with their great subject-recedes in memory, World War II has replaced it in the country's hagiography...