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Those People of the Nile (1972)
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Those People of the Nile (1972)
Original name: الناس والنيل
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the waters of the Nile were diverted, Chahine shows how individual concerns sometimes outweigh the myth surrounding a collective undertaking. The first Egyptian-Soviet co-production was shown to its two sponsor governments in 1968, inspiring considerable displeasure. Re-editing was demanded; along with newly shot sequences using actors. Consequently, the film was not shown until 1972.
Plot: engineering, prostitute, journalist, friendship between men, women's rights, dam, marriage proposal, working class, childhood memory, flashback, world war two veteran, voice over narration, construction site, archive footage, working out
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: soviet union, egypt, ussr, moscow russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, realistic, serious and contemplative films with plots about soviet, love, spirituality, loneliness, perestroika, police and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Those People of the Nile: Fathers (1989), Heat (1963), The Lonely Voice of Man (1987), The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965), The Sparrow (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fathers (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The film takes place in the first half of the 1960s. The protagonist of the picture is a young worker of the apparatus, Vladimir Novikov, a charming, educated, energetic person - a thriving functionary. Novikov has a young sweetheart - student ...
Plot: revenge, student, father, murder, death, taxi driver, worker, leadership, construction site
Time: 60s
Place: siberia, soviet union
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Heat (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Plot: working class, agriculture, school, fire, water, tractor, peasant, community, horse, heat wave, generation, soviet ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Sparrow (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Algeria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Style: mondo
Plot: village, corruption, journalist, truck, tea, little boy, newspaper, mother daughter relationship, nationalism, bandit, fatherhood, father son conflict ...
Time: year 1967
Place: middle east, cairo egypt, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Second Wife (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
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Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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Style: art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience: kids
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Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
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Style: iconic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: spiritual
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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