Take the melodrama out, and you will have an amazingly fateful collection of vignettes of life in Russia at the beginning of the century.

Some of the acting is almost operatic in its flamboyance but it suits the story.

Those who are fascinated with Soviet movies will have cause to break out the vodka and balalaikas.

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