[Jmouse007]

While you personally might not like some of the casting choices (the critics along with myself thought Buscemi's portrayal of Kruschev was excellent); As someone who spent years living and working throughout the Soviet Union shortly after it fell, what is presented in the film is hitorically accurate and it is damming concerning Soviet communism and the abject terror Stalin inflicted on the entire nation.

Every student I taught and every person I met had family members, friends and colleagues killed, "dissapeared", imprisoned or sent off to Siberia and the gulag never to be seen again. Every one of them!

This film is an historically accurate "black comedy" and while we can laugh at the sheer absurdity of what we see, ...it happened.

This is a "must see film", especially for young people who have absolutely no clue as to what communism and socialism is and leads to every time it has been inflicted upon a nation and its people.

[Oratam]

I liked the movie. It's been two days and I'm still thinking about it . . . mostly scenes featuring Buscemi.

I meant only that the producer's, director's, screenwriter's, whomever's choice for Kruschev says something about his or her regard for the subject, i.e., Buscemi is a fine actor but a comically homely one thus truly perfect for the part. This ain't hagiography.