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Old October 19th, 2020 #59
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Originally Posted by steven clark View Post
Thanks for the title 'Agony.' I might see if I can find it somewhere.
In low quality and with not very good readable English subtitles built into the movie, this movie is here.





Agony



Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.














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Many, many years ago, we had Sunday afternoon TV featuring children's movies, and one was a Soviet adaptation of the O. Henry (American) story, The Ransom of Red Chief. It was unusual to see an American story done by Russians, but it was quite enjoyable.
I have no other options except that it was a famous episode from the movie Businessmen (Деловые люди - 1962).

The episode you are writing about starts at 29:56. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles.



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It was always relaxed, Sundays. Now, it's just trashy and loud, like all American TV.

Of course also, the Soviets favored Jack London, since he was a socialist, and John Reed.
I have not read both of them and I have not watched movies based on their novels.



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In Boston, there is actually a fairly large Russian community; many are Jews, but a lot of gentiles are there as well, and being an academic center, there are lots of university film series and 'art' house cinemas, or were; that might have changed.
Thank you, Steven!

I don't know anything about Russian communities in the United States, except that there is a famous Russian district of Brighton Beach in New York.
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