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Also Directed by Leonid Pchyolkin
Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...
According to the play of the same name A. N. Ostrovsky. About fidelity and cunning, about purity of human feelings and belief in true happiness…
A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.
A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.
Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.
