Word: nonna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Some Argentines even reacted to the financial crisis with humor. The owners of one Buenos Aires restaurant, La Nonna Inmaculata, papered its walls with old pesos. Manager Jose de la Iglesia thinks the new decor will attract a nostalgic crowd...
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