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Nine years before making the most rewatched and popular television film in the history of the Soviet Union with the New Years Eve screwball romantic comedy The Irony of Fate or his claustrophobic dramedy Garage, Soviet Russian writer-director-actor Eldar Ryazanov singlehandedly launched what became known as the Soviet political satire film with his sendup of the film noire subgenre Watch Out for the Automobile or as it is commonly known here Beware of the Car.  Based on a screenplay cowritten by Ryazanow and Emil Braginsky and produced by Mosfilm, the film became a tragicomic stepping-stone for Letter Never Sent actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky and dared pose the question of noble thievery in a distinctly Soviet world.  Though parodying film noir, this multiple award-winning Brezhnev-era work which derives its title from traffic signs in parking garages wound up being the number one Soviet film of 1966 as well as granting th