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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Gleb Panfilov
- Writer
- Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Gleb Panfilov
Details
- Release date
- Oct 12, 1970
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Soviet Union
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