Fair Wind(1973)
Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of the local commune...
Movie: Fair Wind
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Yan
Alibala
Bicherakhov
Smit
Rosher
Vasin
Petrov
Amiraslanov
Maria
Talibov
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Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of the local commune...
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1973-07-04
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