Oh, this guy… he used to be in everything, but it’s been yonks since I’ve seen him.
Yes, this is another movie from the Alan Clarke box set (i.e., TV plays from the 70s).
This is about Soviet dissidents in the UK trying to drum up support for getting other dissidents out of insane asylums in the Soviet Union. So it was extremely topical, and is a kind of call to arms and stuff. But does it work as a drama still? It kinda does?
But it does rather drag at points — it’s mostly about the protagonists not being happy with living in the UK…
I like the performances.
It’s a pretty odd one — the “subject matter” is Soviet treatment of dissidents, but we spend 90% of the time with this relationship drama… And it’s not bad relationship drama, really — but it just feels… weird. Like it’s a bait and switch?
Nina. Alan Clarke. 1978. ⚂