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Websites
Films
- Bed and Sofa (dir. Abram Room, 1927)
- Circus (dir. Grigorii Aleksandrov, 1936)
- Little Vera (dir. Vasilii Pichul, 1988)
- The Cranes Are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
- The Irony of Fate (dir. El’dar Riazanov, 1976)
