The Thief

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The Thief
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R,1hr 37min
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July 17, 1998
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Stratosphere Entertainment
Synopsis: A boy and his mother try to get by in the Soviet Union of the 1950s in this tragedy written and directed by Pavel Chukrai. The joint Russian-French production opens with a woman falling down in the snow and mud to give birth to a child in 1946. The boy's father is a soldier who died in the war. Katya (Yekaterina Rednikova) and her son Sanya (Misha Philipchuk) are next seen six years later on a train. Poor and desperate, she falls in love with a rakish soldier, Tolyan (Vladimir Mashkov). Tolyan pretends ... Full Synopsis
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Vor is a perfect example of what characterizes many of the films that get nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: a sincere little movie placed in the historical past, told through the memories of a child, warm and sentimental and perfectly pleasant, and almost completely forgettable. This is the sort of foreign film that seems to have been made with an eye toward international distribution. ... Full Review
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