Jon Mirsalis on Piano Ian Christie of the British Film Institute writes to us: "A Familiar Face is a realfind. It was discovered by means of a review written by Mandelstam, which praised it as an unexpectedcommentary on a subject which had already become over-solemn: the Civil War. It is a kind of BusterKeaton/Vicar of Bray story about a guy who joins whichever side captures him as he treks through theUkraine with his camel."