Conversations on
Russian Literature
Running time: 60 minutes
Cast: 1m, 1f
A young State Department official and an officer from the former Soviet Union sit on a park bench in Moscow sharing a bottle of vodka late at night. As their conversation unfolds, a verbal fencing match ensues, cloaked in exchanges on literature, the changing political landscape, their personal lives; and somewhere amidst the chess game of intrigue and diplomacy, a point of convergence must be found.
“Conversations on Russian Literature Plus Three More Plays” reveals a sensibility that is one part literary, two parts comic book. Mr. Johnston has a critic’s nose for cliché and employs it without a trace of shame or earnestness.
—Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
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