The Sisters (1957)

Original title

Сестры

Directed by

Grigori Roshal

Genre

drama film, war film, historical drama

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two sisters fall in love in Petrograd before the Russian Revolution. The story shows their lives during the final years of the Russian Empire and the First World War.

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What happens

The Sisters (Russian: Сёстры, romanized: Syostry) is a 1957 Soviet epic film directed by Grigori Roshal. It based on Sisters (1918–1922), the first part of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's The Road to Calvary trilogy. The film depicts the Russian Empire during the First World War; two sisters in Petrograd pursue romance in the runup to the Russian Revolution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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