CORRUPTION is corruption because of a line. Mamad the clerk comes to mind. He took a pile of office paper which he then sold, and felt he had done wrong. This sense of wrongdoing troubled him so deeply that it is at once funny and distressing, and this is why Sjumandjaya's 1973 film, based on Chekov's 19th century tale, becomes an interesting story. It doesn't present wickedness, but rather awareness. Mamad, with his outdated office-regulation