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House of Greed (1934)

House of Greed poster
Directed by
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Genre
drama film
Country
Soviet Union
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A family in pre-revolutionary Russia falls apart from greed, hypocrisy, and cruelty. The story follows a man who manipulates his relatives while his own moral decay mirrors the family's collapse.

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What happens

House of Greed (Russian: Иудушка Головлёв) is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky, based on Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel The Golovlyov Family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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