A Great Life (1939)

Original title

Большая жизнь

Directed by

Leonid Lukov

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

In a small Donbas mining village, a young engineer proposes a new coal mining method. He faces pushback from a cautious committee chairman but gains support from veteran miners and a party organizer. The story follows his efforts to prove the method works.

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What happens

A Great Life (Russian: Большая жизнь, romanized: Bolshaya zhizn) is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov. The film depicts a small mining village in the Donbas, where a young engineer’s innovative coal mining method faces resistance from a cautious mine committee chairman, but with the support of veterans and a determined party organizer, he perseveres to prove his method’s worth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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