Not So ‘Brand New’ Cherry Flavor
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
White Angel of the Tundra
1937. A wave of repression began throughout the Soviet Union. The repression also affected the family of hereditary doctors, people of a seemingly completely peaceful profession. Oblezova's grandfather, father, and son were repressed on false charges. And the mother, fearing that her daughter will suffer the same fate, accompanies Lydia to the unknown North.
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1937. A wave of repression began throughout the Soviet Union. The repression also affected the family of hereditary doctors, people of a seemingly completely peaceful profession. Oblezova's grandfather, father, and son were repressed on false charges. And the mother, fearing that her daughter will suffer the same fate, accompanies Lydia to the unknown North.
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