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Word: nadja (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collwyn organization, enhances its drama with a slow and deliberate tempo, unfolds its story with a sombre and decisive insistence. In the remote and improbable province of Rupolosia among the barbaric villainies of a military governor, the ravages of his soldiery, and assorted chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen, one Olga Tschechowa. Despite effective rascality in the other roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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