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Don Diego and Pelageya
Don Diego and Pelageya

DON DIEGO AND PELAGEYA

Don Diego i Pelageya

Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Soviet Union, 1928
Silent

    Synopsis

    A bullying provincial railroad official arrests an illiterate peasant granny for a minor infraction, and the other villagers have to go through the mill of Soviet bureaucracy to get her out of jail.

    Synopsis

    A bullying provincial railroad official arrests an illiterate peasant granny for a minor infraction, and the other villagers have to go through the mill of Soviet bureaucracy to get her out of jail.