Ben Gazzara
Birthday: 1930-08-28
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
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Anatomy of a Murder
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
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The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, ...
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museu...
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Dogville
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...
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Road House
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton ...
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Bloodline
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident...
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Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days....
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They All Laughed
New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected ...
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the...
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Buffalo '66
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla a...
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Eve
Kate is a young woman visiting her grandmother to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surpri...
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Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...
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Il Volo
Inspired by the experiences of some small southern Italian municipalities which chose to integrate a...
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The Spanish Prisoner
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation...
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Ladykiller
A string of murders begin occurring on a campus by an embittered husband betrayed by his wife, who n...
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Undertaker's Paradise
Black comedy about a young undertaker, starting his own firm in a seaside resort....
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The Bridge at Remagen
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and Amer...
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The Neptune Factor
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it ...
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Shadow Conspiracy
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets hi...
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The Girl from Trieste
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) bei...
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Capone
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio ...
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The Strange One
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets....
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A....
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Droit de Réponse
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 a...
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Empire State Building Murders
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden a...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Pursuit
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions ...
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Husbands
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives an...
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The Passionate Thief
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his...
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When Michael Calls
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each ...
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Illuminata
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company o...
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The Professor
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate....
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Convicts 4
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to ...
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Valentine's Day
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assi...
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Chez Gino
Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. ...
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An Early Frost
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mo...
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Shark in a Bottle
Guy Normal (probably not his real name) is clumsy, has amnesia, and has fallen into the hands of an ...
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Saint Jack
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimp...
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Carol for Another Christmas
Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son ...
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Christopher Roth
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own....
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Holy Money
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies i...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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Dogville Confessions
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others...
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A Rage to Live
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble r...
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Marilyn in Manhattan
An exclusive look at Marilyn Monroe just before her tragic end. Set in New York City in the 50's - I...
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The Zone
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his...
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Inchon
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationshi...
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Anything for John
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for...
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Quiet Flows The Don
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashi...
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The Death of Richie
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which cause...
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The Young Doctors
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy....
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Forever
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful B...
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions sp...
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Convict Cowboy
New inmate Clay Treyton, doing time for fisticuffs, is sent to a Montana ranch where prisoners spend...
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Donne sbagliate
Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The comm...
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Bitter Champagne
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman....
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Woman of Wonders
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a w...
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Looking for Palladin
Brash young Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross (David Moscow) is dispatched to Guatemala, where he's a...
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Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of ...
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Blindsided
An ex-cop is temporarily blinded when he steals cash from a money laundering operations. While recup...
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Maneater
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer....
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Don Bosco
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exp...
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The Sicilian Connection
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but...
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Home Sweet Hoboken
A waitress discovers a ring she thought was worthless is actually worth $10 million....
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The Making of 'Husbands'
A documentary behind the scenes of John Cassavetes' 'Husbands' (1970)....
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Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My ...
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Quicker Than the Eye
An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds hi...
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Control
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strange...
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Conquered City
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered...
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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore...
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People Like Us
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, a...
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Parallel Lives
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemi...
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Happiness
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, e...
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Il tesoro di Damasco
A mysterious black marble tablet is found in Syrian desert by an Arab terrorist after an attack on a...
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Too Tired to Die
Kenji is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally ...
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Bandits
Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins o...
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Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama...
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Lies Before Kisses
A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accus...
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A Letter to Three Wives
A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away wi...
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The List
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of he...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Blue Moon
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacatio...
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Downpayment on Murder
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired k...
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Uno scandalo perbene
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward...
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Beyond the Ocean
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its ...
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My Dearest Son
A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help hi...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotype...
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Brian's Song
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on...
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High Velocity
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kid...
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Arena - John Cassavetes
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fel...
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Very Mean Men
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the ba...
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Paradise Cove
Film noir involving Indian casinos, ex-cons seeking redemption, FBI agents and ruthless family of ga...
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The Shore
Hungering for some quality alone time with her new boyfriend, Ray, single mother Kaliope Harris leav...
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A Constant Forge
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...
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One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."...
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Vicious Circles
When a young man is arrested for trafficking drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making s...
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Summer of Sam
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on...
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Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers....
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Angelo Nero
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of t...
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Stag
An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host...
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13
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world ...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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The Family Rico
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the ...
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Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of E...
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A Question of Honor
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to...
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The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
Producer Al Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper share their fond memories...
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Jack of Hearts
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of c...
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Hysterical Blindness
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey....
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A Prince Called Toto
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man i...
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Believe
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfath...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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The Window Over the Way
A Turkish consul travels to a Soviet city in the worst times of Stalinism. There, he falls in love w...
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You'll Never See Me Again
A woman vanishes after exclaiming to her husband, "You'll never see me again!" He is then finds hims...
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