Preview is a tragicomic novella with two main characters, Kaputev and Bogoman, strangers to each other who are "crossed-outs" - state enemies in a dictator- ship behind the Iron Curtain. As they sit in an empty theatre waiting for the previews to start, their personal stories unfold, high- lighting the absurdity, comedy and terror of living under a dictatorship, including the per- verse intimacy of the narrator's realization that his thoughts are being picked up and read by his companion. During the film, a lavish production about draining a Siberian swamp, Bogoman's story of a ludicrous...