The Express Sketch about the difficult film with a

The Express Sketch about the difficult film with a noisy reputation


The famous film director to Joseph Vissarionovich comes:

- Joseph Vissarionovich, I prepared the film. The black comedy.

- At us according to the Constitution all freedoms are set. For example, only one candidate can stand on a direct, equal, general election with a secret ballot. But you considered what now a time? "Not a step backwards!". Comrade Govorov organized artillery duels. So, you must to wait.

The director understood a situation and left the office-room. Stalin wrote down something on a sheet of paper .

The director waits. Salutes... There took place the Parade. Year passed, another …

Suddenly at the director the phone is ringing. Stalin's assistant calls:

- The problem was solved by itself. You can not worry.

- And how to be with the film?

- It is not a question of comrade Stalin. This question was removed from control of the Stavka.

The director in confusion. What to do?

His memory digests the phone call: "… The Stavka … The Stavka …"

"I will dial, just in case, some the phone number!..."

He dials the number:

- I listen! – the director in the receiver hears. And except the voice other sounds are heard. It seems, some film is in a watching. As if, a somebody speaks about Mathilda Kschessinskaya …

- I would like to coordinate an issue of display of the black comedy about the starving second capital of the state, - the director says.

- According to the Imperial Manifesto for the population was granted the firm bases of civil liberty on the principles of the inviolability of a personality, a freedom of worship, a word, meetings and the unions, - the interlocutor reports. Then the interlocutor of the director disconnected the phone link.

The director looked at a calendar, then sighed, and make the decision: "I will go to a cinema. I will watch a historical film". "For example, the film about Mathilda Kschessinskaya". "Very respected people, many deputies showed their interest in this film". "It is necessary to be in a trend".


October 16, 2018 11:18


Translation from Russian into English: 16 October 2018 13:03.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский «Экспресс-скетч о трудном фильме с шумной репутацией».