Reflecting on 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
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The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
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The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Vera Eri
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Runtime:62 minutes
Studio:Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast
Yakov Protazanov
Director
Varvara Popova
Katya Sushkova
Natasha Konyus
Katya in the childhood
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Katya's grandmother
Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Andrey, factory worker
Olga Zhizneva
Lulu
Anatoli Ktorov
Vladimir Zaglobin, cynical emigrant
Vera Maretskaya
Varya
Alexander Geirot
Candidate for the throne
Mikhail Zharov
Factory worker
Tatyana Mukhina
Little girl
Nikolai Prozorovsky
Factory worker
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