The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy
7.2
1984
0 hr 3 min
Comedy
A riff on Bunuel's classic, Lorne Michaels commissioned this Zbigniew Rybczynski work for NBC's The New Show, as a satiric look at the January 27th, 1984 White House reception for the Soviet Ambassador.
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