Karel Stepanek
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An exciting drama about a passionate love affair set in postwar Russia. Philip Sutherland, a foreign correspondent based in Russia, falls in love with a ballerina, Maria Lamarkina. They marry to return to the United States together but Cold War politics intervene and she is detained in Russia by the KGB while Philip is escorted home. Political intrigue, fabulous ballet sequences and a timeless love story make this thrilling drama a classic.
2) Anastasia
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Studio classic volume 9
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An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
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The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...