Since many are discussing THE DEVILS and Oliver Reed's overall gigantic personality, it should be gloriously noted he died of a heart attack on his day off while in the middle of filming GLADIATOR after being challenged to a drinking contest in a local pub by a group of sailors. He reportedly drank roughly 10 pints of Lager, 12 shots of Rum, half bottle of Whiskey, washing it all down with sips of Cognac. He was 61-years-old.
His last words to the paramedics just moments before he died were, "I simply had a few drinks with new friends."
Instead of posting the obvious Soviet works of art to easily debunk the cheap ragebait below, I'd like to introduce you to the remarkable Soviet/Russian painter, Geliy Korzhev (1925-2012).
The windows are Kafkaesque because if Kafka were still alive he could be sitting or standing behind them, maybe even working on one of his famous Kafkaesque stories. But you can’t say for sure. And that’s Orwellian