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Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: In 1946, Stalin invites Russian expatriates to return to the motherland. A promise of open arms turns into a situation where many of them are shot or imprisoned. This film follows the story of a young family from France.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Feels like an old-fashioned movie in the way it deals with bold sacrifices made in the name of love, while its setting and chary view of the era's political machinations mark it as distinctly modern.
  2. The movie that deserved to win the Oscar for foreign-language film, and one of the best movies ever made about life behind the Iron Curtain.
  3. 60
    Packed with melodrama, and often it works in the passionate, easy-to-watch manner of an old-fashioned "woman's film."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1

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