The Beginning(Начало)
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Soviet Union · 1970
1h 31m
Director Gleb Panfilov
Starring Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov
Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arcady who is a married man.
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