By the mid 1930's

Movie, it comes today (Yle teema 22.05) showing historical and other points of interest.
The Triple agent plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death. It was a spirit of this tide.
After the firs world war there were no way go to back in Old World, and major countries were blood reingned by dictatorships in the 1930´s.
Eric Rohmer was [2004] also among the movement’s most consistent and enduring talents.
France, 1936-37, The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying.
The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon.
Fiodor’s Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors.
Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin’s Great Purge, considers his options.
We have our own taste of those confused times and Stalin’s and Hitler´s intentions and The Man who was anti-fasist in his inner bearing.