Word: mejrabpom
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Road to Life (Mejrabpom), first sound picture produced in Russia where only eleven theatres have apparatus for this type of cinema, is frankly propaganda. It exhibits, with great self-satisfaction, Soviet methods of dealing with the problem of the wolfish ragamuffins who infested Moscow after the War. Corralled by the police, the wild boys are set to work in a juvenile Commune, superintended by a tactful and vigorous social worker (Nikolai Batalov). From time to time they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune...
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