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La casa sul lungo fiumeThe House along the River
A motionless Titanic that never sank, but has survived the years. It is in Moscow, right next to the Kremlin. It was meant to be a palace of the future, residence for leaders of the revolution and their families. All the big names of the Nomenklatura lived in this House of Government, designed to be self-sufficient. But this realm of privilege became instead the tomb of suffering, the residence of fear, arrests and denunciations. During the Great Terror, Stalin had most of the residents arrested. The secret services would arrive at night, arrest them and the next day another family would move in. The survivors give a bitter account of this period. Some, like Stalin's niece, were arrested; others saw their parents deported. The palace still dominates the Bersenevskaya embankment, having withstood the winds of History.
Italy - 2002 - 58 mn - Betacam SP - Colour
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