The Watchmaker and the Chicken
Jun 12 1989
•2h 13m
•TV Movie, Drama, History
In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker Karfunkel at a small railway station. Seven years later, in the early twenties, and then another seven years later, the heroes meet here again. Their destinies are different, the country changes, their lives change...
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Jüri Järvet
Yaroslav Havryliuk
Tatyana Tashkova
Igor Dmitriev
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