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"House Built On Sand"
1991
Directed by Nijole Adomenaite

Ada and Sonya were both 30 in 1937. Ada and her friends play a practical joke on Sonya, sending her a love letter from a supposed admirer. One angle on life among the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of World War II. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad. "Beautiful, leisurely and exceedingly subtle" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). Russian with English subtitles.  75 minutes.