衣领%\上的唇印

　　The [ma.`]in story is set i%n^
a British %Mil
=itar+y I)-(ntellig*:e/ nc/e !?$Of,,fice in White(*)ha *ll: during 1956,
where a small gr$_=!oup
+= of -/\foreign/;@ affairs +analysts find their qu[ie:t e*xis,#[tence disrupted by   %the ,)[Suez Cr!i(sis. $ $Ewan McGregor plays$[ M*ick Hopper, who :is[ doing his national/+ service as an in^!terpreter of
[ Russia)!n doc+;-umen@*ts[-. Bored]:, with hi?s job, Hopper spends his day-s creating  fan: tasy day\)dreams that ;
involve his work colle?a%
gues br;-ea king i=nto c

ontempo:rary !hit  songs. Loui\,:se/% _.?=]Ge[rm%\=^aine play/ $`s S^=ylvia Berry, the blonde wife o+f the ;!? violent Corporal P$ete Berry (
$Douglas He*nshall). Sylvia is a%n o/$*bjec @%t of desire for Mi!!ck 9s  [fello[.w*#/ cler$[k Pr?$ivate [* Fr?-ancis Francis an:)d a middle\-aged pipe-organist named ,$Har*:old At /te;$rbow (:`R\`oy Hudd\-). Unlike the street-wise H)*opper:-] , Franc^is is +a clumsy W+e` lsh inte ^;llectual wh_ose academic\_ care:er has bee%n interrup! ted by his arm_y cal  \l ,up. The [-,
appea)+)ra?=$nce of the :bo) =okish \niece_ of# a sec? `onded Amer;i+#:\can officer enables $the two ,^conscripts to pair off with( su[itable%
 partners, after in]itial mismatching. Some#. of the ]side (^(themes includ;
e the infl` u]ence of A$-`meri=(can ro=ck and roll on English
 )# ,society^!, the]  gul`:
f betw!%e en the senior analysts, /`who are regula--)
r` army)@^ offic=@?er ?#s#, and the cons_/c` -ripted ot_]her
/ranks, *the work of Russian pla(ywrig ,ht Ch:ekhov, an !d the%* appreci ;@atio +n [ of opu+lent the-)a$?tr? =e @: _p-ipe * _)o::%rga$#ns. The=) unu`+sual contex(t — a ^m  ilita_ry cul!tur=+e -
tr;
ansp@lanted  #;into-\ a`)^_ civil service style office environment — reflects Pott^#er[`'#s own nat/(ional service during the 1?!95)**0s. While this piece *?-h% %as the: form of =?:a romantic -.^c:omedy, unlike the $less convention!al work:(s of Dennis Potter&#@39s mid] dle p@eriod, [it is [] !not
 withou,*t gr!ap
\hic ;(sex and+; vio[lence, a*
%!s $_well as.
Potter&#$`,3/+9s characteristic $
fl-ashes of dreamlike ,@imagery. T`@he !$/#cen *$$trepiec(@e of this pr]`oduction is the[*)? su!-+rreal musi:#$?cal sequ*_ence s((et )to the song In a Per*`
?sia
n Marke^t.