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Legal Marriage (1985)

Legal Marriage poster
Original title
Законный брак
Directed by
Albert S. Mkrtchyan
Genre
drama film, romance film, war film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An actor marries a sick girl as a favor to get her back to Moscow. As they travel together during the war, they unexpectedly fall in love.

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What happens

Legal Marriage (Russian: Законный брак, romanized: Zakonniy brak) is a 1985 Soviet war romance film directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan. The film tells about an actor who decides to help a sick girl go home to the capital and for this they enter into a fictitious marriage. And suddenly they begin to realize that they love each other. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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