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The Yellow Ticket (1928)

The Yellow Ticket poster
Original title
Земля в плену
Directed by
Fedor Ozep
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman is forced into prostitution in tsarist Russia after her father dies and she cannot find honest work. The film follows her struggle to survive in a world of poverty and male exploitation.

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What happens

The Yellow Ticket or Earth in Captivity (Russian: Земля в плену, romanized: Zemlya v plenu) is a 1928 Soviet silent drama film written and directed by Fyodor Otsep and starring Anna Sten, Ivan Koval-Samborsky and Mikhail Narokov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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