Sonnet 132
A dramatic and touching love story between a Ukrainian boy and a Russified girl, set in the mid-1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw. Based on Stepan Vasylchenko's short story "The Moscow Horsefly."
A dramatic and touching love story between a Ukrainian boy and a Russified girl, set in the mid-1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw. Based on Stepan Vasylchenko's short story "The Moscow Horsefly."
Iryna Tkachenko
Dmytro Kovalenko
Larysa Puzanova
Serhii Vutianov
A dramatic and touching love story between a Ukrainian boy and a Russified girl, set in the mid-1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw. Based on Stepan Vasylchenko's short story "The Moscow Horsefly."
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