Word: mordukova
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...Soviet soldiers march into a Ukrainian village and, at their leader's heartless command, shoot down a deserter. Just another businesslike day in the life of Commissar Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordukova). But even in a revolution that boasts of sexual equality, women will get pregnant. Vavilova must bear her child in the hovel of a Jewish tinsmith (Rolan Bykov) and his family. Their enforced intimacy sparks a cultural exchange: the commissar becomes feminized, and the tinsmith's wife (Raisa Nedashkovskaya) becomes a bit of a feminist. Outside, though, the Jew's children are taunted and tortured in a kind...
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