Top Cast
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Vitali Politseymako
Эзоп
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Nikolai Korn
Ксанф
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Pavel Luspekayev
Агностос
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Nina Olkhina
Клея
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Vsevolod Kuznetsov
начальник стражи
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B. Vasiev
эфиоп
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Bruno Frejndlikh
Ксанф
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Inna Kondratyeva
Meli
Overview
The wealthy slave trader Xanthus, who imagines himself to be a great poet and philosopher, buys the slave Aesop, a writer of fables. Soon Xanthus becomes famous, but everyone understands who the true author of his new works is.
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