Grim laughter sometimes, for Orumbo is a nasty piece of work (Mr Bandele resists political correctness), but witty with it.

ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

Vladimir Baskakov, head of Goskino, the central state administrative body for the cinema, emerges as a particularly nasty piece of work.

ECONOMIST: Soviet cinema

Because he's mercurial, insufficiently engaged by the more boring (but crucial) operations like distribution and, ultimately, because he's a pretty nasty piece of work.

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