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VHS : The Thief [1997]
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5021886161208 Format: PAL, Subtitled Label: Artificial Eye Manufacturer: Artificial Eye Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Artificial Eye Release Date: February 22, 1999 Running Time: 95 minutes Sales Rank: 2224 Studio: Artificial Eye Theatrical Release Date: 1997 |
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- Thanks, Stalin, for our "Happy Childhood"! Not!!This film is almost unbearably sad and eventually tragic. It is about a young Russian war widow who, on a crowded train in the mid-to-late 1940's, meets a man. The man seems to be a young Red Army officer, but in fact is a thief dressed in a way likely to aid his movement about Russia in Stalin's day (when people could not even board a long distance train without frequently showing an internal passport --which system carried on until the 1980's and seems totalitarian; but then look at today and at ... Read More
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- I really enjoyed this!Without doubt, one of my favourite films, especially suprising given that it is Russian. The film gives a (sometimes amusing) insight into Russian life and values just after the war without being too political as well as an interesting and poignant plot. Well worth watching!
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