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The House Built on Sand
Film / 1991

The House Built on Sand

Directed by Nijole Adomenaite
DramaTV movie

★ 9.0/10Audience rating

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.

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A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.

Cast

Yelena Shiffers Yelena Shachkova Yuri Astafyev Vladimir Eryomin Vladimir Kuznetsov Ivan Latyshev Mariya Nikiforova Natalya Nikulenko Yuriy Ovsyanko Aleksandr Strunin Aleksandr Zavyalov Aleksandr Chevychelov
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Anatoli Zhuravlyov Tatyana Zhuravleva Yuriy Solovyov Tamara Timofeeva Yevgeni Chistov Nikolay Dik

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