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UNITED STATES · 1971
Romance of a Horsethief
New Hollywood
horse theft
Russian occupation
small town resistance
imperial conflict
cultural survival
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Synopsis
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to ste
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