Man Casts an Anchor
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Shirali
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Moroz
Adila
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The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.
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1967-12-10
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