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Golden Beak (1928)

Golden Beak poster
Original title
Золотой клюв
Directed by
Yevgeni Chervyakov
Genre
drama film, silent film, historical film
Country
Soviet Union
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a story is set in a mining community where workers struggle against hardship and injustice. The film dramatizes events from a historical novel about a gold mining operation and the tensions between the miners and their bosses.

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What happens

Golden Beak (Russian: Золотой клюв, romanized: Zolotoy klyuv) is a 1928 Soviet drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov. Screen version of the eponymous historical novel by Anna Karavaeva. One of the last three Soviet silent films that appeared on screens in 1929, along with the films The New Babylon and Fragment of an Empire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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