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Love Is as Strong as Death (1997) | Slate

Rated 10.0 on TMDB

Love Is as Strong as Death

Сильна как смерть любовь

After e few years in the west writer Alexei decidet to revisit his native St. Petersburg.On his way there he learns that the best friend of his youth has just been killed. Nostalgic rediscovering of wintry St. Petersburg turns into a breackneck unrevelling of a tight knot of lies. Is it just lies, or a fatal chain of crime?

Released: 1997
Runtime: 1h 38m
Genres: Drama
Country: Russia
Language: Russian

Direction and writing

Andrei NekrasovWriter, Director

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