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The Patriots (1933)

The Patriots poster
Original title
Окраина
Directed by
Boris Barnet
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a small Russian border town, ordinary people live through the upheaval of World War I. The film shows how the war strains families and changes lives.

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What happens

Outskirts (Russian: Окра́ина, meaning "fringe" or "periphery"), also known in English as The Patriots or by the transliterated Russian title Okraina, is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet. Outskirts is said to have the distinction to be the only Soviet-era film, before World War II, to deal exclusively with World War I. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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