Excellent tale of the little man out of tune with a totalitarian society, shown with great wit and hilarious humour!The film starts with a funeral where the dead man is honored with a bottle of vodka, and a grand orchestra playing.. the scene ending with the members of the orchestra finishing the contents of the bottle of vodka before giving the empty bottle to the dead man..The man playing the drum is out of tune with the orchestra and out of tune for the rest of the movie, so out of tune that he is put away in an asylum where they try to get him in tune.A great tale of the little man struggling against a totalitarian system often humiliated but always carrying his heavy burdens.