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Of Freaks and Men is a film of genre Drama directed by Aleksei Balabanov with Sergei Makovetsky

Of Freaks and Men (1998)

Про уродов и людей

Of Freaks and Men
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Length 1h33
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Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Historical
Rating69% 3.4937253.4937253.4937253.4937253.493725

Of Freaks and Men (Russian: Про уродов и людей; Pro urodov i lyudey) is a 1998 Russian film directed by Alexei Balabanov.

Synopsis

L'histoire de deux familles de Saint-Petersbourg au début du XXe siècle. Celle du docteur Stasov et sa femme qui ont adopté dix-sept ans auparavant deux enfants siamois originaires de Mongolie et la famille Radlov, beaucoup plus modeste.

Actors

Sergei Makovetsky

(Johann)
Dinara Droukarova

(Liza)
Viktor Soukhoroukov

(Viktor Ivanovich)
Iouri Galtsev

(impresario)
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