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A Slave of Love (1976)

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Original title
Раба любви
Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Genre
comedy drama, romance film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film actress in 1917 Russia becomes the object of affection for revolutionaries who risk arrest to watch her movies. She gets caught up in their dangerous world while continuing to make her films.

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What happens

A Slave of Love (Russian: Раба любви, romanized: Raba lyubvi) is a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and written by Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrey Konchalovskiy. It stars Elena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov and Aleksandr Kalyagin. The film is about a silent film actress, Olga Voznesenskaya (Elena Solovey), whose films are so admired by the revolutionaries that they risk capture to see her on the screen. The character of Olga was inspired by Vera Kholodnaya. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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