1961 Cannes Film Festival – Best Director Winner
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The Story of the Flaming Years
Yuliya Solntseva
In early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not…