Alyonka
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 1...
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"One of the - unexpectedly - most poignant, moving films you will ever see, in its own right and more so if you bear in mind the historical perspective. It's 1955, 10-15 years after the total war of annihilation unleashed on the Soviet Union by the Nazis, with its 30 million (mostly non-combatant) Soviet dead, and 35 years before the selling off of the same country, in the name of freedom, to the assorted gangsters who largely own and run it today. But in this luminous film (made in 1961, at the beginning of the most civilised and hope-inspiring global decade of the last 100+ years) we ar..."
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Final film of Natalya Serebryannikova.
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Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 1...