By this stage Soviet soldiers started to treat German women more as sexual spoils of war than as substitutes for the Wehrmacht on which to vent their rage.
Made by renowned theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, the film developed out of his successful stage production at the Moscow Gogol Center.
Phrases from the film have become bywords, and the comedy is something of a hymn to Moscow.
But that is a definition from the victim's perspective.
The only thing in their favor is that they have matches, which in this galaxy are worth their weight in gold.
A substitute teacher has been charged with first-degree sexual assault after she allegedly had oral sex with a 17-year-old student on her first day at the job.