6 Films & TV Shows Set In Ukraine During The 1920s
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Déjà vu
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sThe Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odessa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
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The Golden Calf
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1920sA crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
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The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1920sThe action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which speaks of the existence of defensive fortifications around the coastal city, which the Reds have yet to take. Young heroes get the task to get a map of fortifications and go to the city...
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The Commissar
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1920sKlavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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The Elusive Revengers
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1920sDan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
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Man with a Movie Camera
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇷🇺 Russia The 1920sA cameraman wanders around Moscow, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
