Translations:Массовая культура/84/en

Propaganda in the film of Pyriev conquers life and replaces it with itself. The class enemy, according to the director, "becomes completely real." A review in 'Kino-Gazeta' (a newspaper dedicated to the cinematography) notes this feature of the "Party Membership Card": "This realistic film is a part of reality, of life itself." Soviet Director Friedrich Ermler confessed to his colleague Leonid Trauberg: "I watched this film, and now I'm very scared of losing my party membership card: what if someone steals it? You won't believe it, but I check under my pillow at night to see if my party membership card is still there."