"The Theme" is a film that had to stay on the shelf for almost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov playsost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov plays Kim Yesenin, a disillusioned and cynical playwright who uses the system by writing the conformist plays and enjoys the benefits of being the officially recognized and appointed "great Soviet writer" but who in reality has been used by a system and spent all the...