Word: soyuzdetfilm
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Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
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