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Plot synopsis

Film almanac, which consists of two short stories: "Angel" – 1920. Kind, sympathetic, but absolutely uncompromising in all that concerns his work and faith, ??commissar Parfenov falls into the hands of ??ataman ?Angel's gang. He does not deny that he has burned their crime accomplices in Malinniki. The hero does not weasel or wait for mercy. "Homeland of electricity" The whole village was waiting for the master, who knew how to get to work an electric water pump for irrigation. ?Electrical engineer Grinya made the equipment work for a while. But the engine had not withstood the pressure and exploded.

 

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Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2015

- Institut Lumière - Hommage à Larissa Chepitko, Lyon (France), 2015

- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2002

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1988

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Films 1 et 2 avec sous-titres anglais