"This wicked, uproarious Georgian anti-bureaucratic satire is set in a publishing house whose fusty, over-crowded rooms and corridors would not disgrace Gogol or Dickens. Behind these crumbling walls (literally so, as nasty cracks start to appear in the ceiling) work a devious group of editors and scribes, obsessed more with their own affairs, business meetings and lunches than with the fate of manuscripts left by aspiring authors. Eldar Shengelaya maintains a beautifully judged tone throughout, pointed and sly, and rarely allows the players to topple over into farce. Witty conceits abound.... Shengelaya has worked some wonderful variations on his characters' sloth and guile." John Gillett, London Film Festival '85