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Baltic Tango (2017)

Baltic Tango poster
Original title
Холодное танго
Directed by
Pavel Chukhray
Genre
drama film, war film, historical film
Country
Russia
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
N-16
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his hometown after World War II and confronts the lingering trauma of the Nazi occupation. The story follows his encounter with a woman who may be connected to a betrayal during the war.

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What happens

Baltic Tango (Russian: Холодное танго, romanized: Kholodnoe Tango) is a Russian military-historical drama film from 2017 directed and written by Pavel Chukhray, based on the novel Sell your mother by Efraim Sevela. Baltic Tango was the first work of Pavel Chukhray after a ten — year break. The film stars Yulia Peresild, Rinal Mukhametov, Sergei Garmash. The film was released on June 22, 2017, on The Day of Remembrance and Sorrow (the 76th anniversary of the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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