Podstrochnik Episode 8
Podstrochnik (Documentary Series)
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26m
Lillianna writes her first article about a newly created theater movement and convinces the editor of Moscow Komsomoletz to publish it. Around the same time, the poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva, her latest work unjustifiably rejected, starts a downward spiral leading to her eventual suicide.
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