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A Trip Without a Load (1963)

A Trip Without a Load poster
Original title
Порожний рейс
Directed by
Vladimir Vengerov
Genre
drama film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist travels to a remote logging site to write a story. He finds the workers there facing a moral dilemma about how to handle a corrupt boss.

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What happens

A Trip Without a Load (Russian: Порожний рейс, romanized: Porozhniy reys) is a 1962 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival at the last moment (instead of the film We, Two of Men) and won a Silver Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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