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MIC in late 1960s and is so universal that its insights are valid in understanding modern MIC leaders. I watched the movie as many times as I could in my youth: starting from 1981. Together with Radio Svoboda and Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita” the movie strongly influenced my worldview. Thanks to Beg, I was primed to the idea of emigration. The basis for Beg’s plot is also coming from Bulgakov’s books.

The movie is a collective creation of great artists and is deeply rooted in best of human culture.

I will give you here a very brief guidance on characters of MIC leaders, just to prime you future research into the movie. The main idea is that all of the MIC leaders are nice people, traumatized, dysfunctional but with much niceness. It is only that they happen to be sucked in the center of the historical process and end up at the top. Some would be there by chance and some due to their drive and unique qualities.

The main character of Beg is Khludov, a military officer mainly responsible for much of cruelty not only in the battle to enemy but also in the rear to civilians.

In the Russian Civil War his motivation was to serve with dignity and to maintain the order at any price in the army which was losing the war. He was clearly shown as an insane person, with fragmented personality and was largely inadequate. As the movie develops, the White army ends up losing the Civil War and MIC fleeing to emigration. The MIC leaders end 387