The Epplee Brothers
The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots.Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive.
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The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.
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- Release date
- Oct 30, 2020
- Runtime
- 0h 16m
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- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
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