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Released: |
1959 |
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Genre: |
FOREIGN
ROMANCE
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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USSR |
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Length: |
89 |
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Young soldier (Vladimir Ivashov, pictured right) takes a few days leave after fighting heroically in World War II.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Beautiful but heavily sentimental weepie which won prizes at the Cannes and San Francisco Film Festivals. The director's woolly propagandizing for peace on earth is less interesting than his portrayal of "ordinary" Russian life, which now comes acreoss as highly idealized.
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