Property of the Republic (1972)
- Original title
- Достояние республики
- Directed by
- Vladimir Bychkov
- Genre
- action film, adventure film, crime film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 13 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.
How it feels
In 1918 Russia, a manager steals a valuable art collection from an abandoned mansion. He teams up with a fencing teacher and a homeless boy as they flee with a circus. A criminal investigator pursues them across the countryside.
adventuroussuspensefulnostalgicgrittylightheartedfast-pacedquirkyhistoric
What happens
Property of the Republic (Russian: Достоя́ние респу́блики, romanized: Dostoyanie respubliki) is a 1971 Soviet two-part adventure film directed by Vladimir Bychkov. The detective story takes place during the Civil War in Russia. The picture was the 44th most attended domestic film in the Soviet Union. Spring 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of the former court fencing teacher Shilovsky and homeless boy Keshka, steals from abandoned mansion collection of paintings and sculptures. Hopping across the border, criminals roam the circus troupe, and they are being tailed by an employee of Criminal Investigation, Makar Ovchinnikov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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