该片是由执导的欧美剧,于1993年上映，主要讲述了:　　The. main .story is .set in a Bri.tish M.ilitary Intelligence .Office in Whitehall during .1956, where a small grou.p of foreign. affairs analysts .find their quiet existen.ce disrupted. by. the Suez Crisis. Ewa.n McGrego.r plays Mick. Hoppe.r, who is. doing his n.ationa.l service as an inter.preter of Russian documents.. Bored with his job, Ho.pper spends .his days creating .fantasy daydreams that i.nvolve his w.ork. colleagues breaking .into cont.emporary hit. songs.. Louise .Germaine pla.ys Syl.via Berry, the blonde. wife of the violent Corpor.al Pete Berry (Douglas H.enshall). Sy.lvia is an object .of desire for Mick's. fellow cler.k P.rivate Francis Franci.s and a m.iddle-aged p.ipe-or.ganist na.med Harold A.tterbo.w (Roy Hudd). Unlike .the street-wise Hopper, Fra.ncis is a clumsy Welsh i.ntellectual .whose academic car.eer has been interrupted. by his army. ca.ll up. The appearance. of the b.ookish niece. of a .seconded .American off.icer e.nables the two conscr.ipts to pair off with suita.ble partners, after init.ial mismatch.ing. Some of the s.ide themes include the i.nfluence of .Ame.rican rock and roll o.n English. society, th.e gulf. between .the senior a.nalyst.s, who are regular ar.my officers, and the conscr.ipted other ranks, the w.ork of Russi.an playwright Chek.hov, and the appreciatio.n of opulent. th.eatre pipe organs. Th.e unusual. context — a. milit.ary cultu.re transplan.ted in.to a civil service st.yle office environment — re.flects Potter's own .national ser.vice during the 19.50s. While this piece ha.s the form o.f a. romantic comedy, unl.ike the l.ess conventi.onal w.orks of D.ennis Potter.'s. middle period, it is. not without graphic sex an.d violence, as well as P.otter's .characteristic fla.shes of dreamlike imager.y. The centr.epi.ece of this productio.n is the .surreal musi.cal se.quence se.t to the son.g In a. Persian Market.