And funny, and sad, and... It is such opposite emotions that this film evokes, which only at first glance can be called a comedy. In fact, despite a number of really comical, almost farcical situations, there is not much really fun here, which is natural. After all, the main characters of this story are the married couple of Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanova and Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich Oratyev, who miraculously escaped death in Russia, seized by revolutionary madness, and dragging an almost poverty-stricken, half-starved existence in an abandoned attic in one of the districts of Paris in the early twenties of the last, twentieth century.
In these roles, the director Anatole Litvak takes Claudette Colbert and Charles Bouiller, who, like a native of Kiev Litvak, treat their heroes with sympathy, enthusiastically, emotionally, slightly ironically conveying a whole range of feelings that overcome them: from despair to the desire to at all costs not to lose their dignity. For the sake of the latter, they even decide to enter the service.
What such an adventure turns out to know everyone who looks at this picture perceived in a single breath with a rather unexpected plot denouement. And she, in turn, will certainly make one more time to imbue with respect for Tatiana-Colbert and Mikhail-Boyer, for whom love for the Motherland and the desire to help her in spite of numerous humiliations are most important in the world.