Yuri Olesha, nicknamed "The Writer"
Apr 13, 2009 | IMDB 1.5
48 min Watch NowDocumentary, Animation, TV Movie
Animated documentary film about the fate of the writer - Yuri Olesha. About how he was strangled by the grip of the era that fell to him, and in such an embrace he was forced to live not his life. Created on the basis of the writer's diaries, the film tells about the inner throwing of a talented man who died in literature thirty years before his physical death.
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