Post-WWII Soviet town: headstrong teen denounces her mother and connects with a Jewish lieutenant amid Holocaust trauma and Stalinist repression.
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Post-WWII Soviet town: headstrong teen denounces her mother and connects with a Jewish lieutenant amid Holocaust trauma and Stalinist repression.
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It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her father's death in the war, and denounces her to the authorities for the petty theft that keeps them from going hungry. When she meets a Jewish lieutenant who has returned to bury his family, betrayed and murdered by their neighbors during the occupation, both must come to terms with the trauma that surro...
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Sexual content
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Coming-of-age story with sexuality deeply involved alongside violence and trauma
Violence & gore
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Witness accounts of Holocaust mass murder, neighbor betrayals, and postwar brutality
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Philosophical reflections on Christians and Jews, love, suffering, justice, and forgiveness
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Stalinist police state, anti-Semitism, Soviet repression, and postwar suffering
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Maternal denunciation, family betrayal, Holocaust atrocities, systemic oppression and trauma
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