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The Commissar / Gorky Studios, USSR ; Sovexport Films Present ; a Kino International Release ; IFEX Films ; screenplay and direction, Alexander Askoldov.
LIBRA VHS PG3476.G7 V23 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Soviet cinema today
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Grossman, Vasiliĭ--Film adaptations.
- Grossman, Vasiliĭ.
- History.
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Drama.
- Soviet Union.
- Motion pictures, Russian.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video ; [Place of publication not identified] : IFEX Internaational Video, 1993.
- Language Note:
- Russian dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child.
- Participant:
- Norma Mordukova, Rolan Bykov.
- Credits:
- Photography, Valery Ginsburg; music, Alfred Schniltke.
- Notes:
- Based on the story: In the town of Berdichev / by Vassily Grossman.
- Videocassette release of the 1967 motion picture, ... "which was banned ... for 21 years."--container notes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan and Philip Carlson Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 63647219
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