Two Lines in Small Font
★ 7 · 1981 · 94m · Drama
While studying the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia, a historian decides to restore the good name of one of the revolutionaries, who was accused of betrayal by his comrades-in-arms and committed suicide.
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