Outskirts
Mar 25 1933
•2h 31m
•War, Drama, Comedy
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
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Aleksandr Chistyakov
Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
Yelena Kuzmina
Marika Greshina
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Nikolai Kadkin
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Senka Kadkin
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