Adam Matejka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: November 21, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 21, 1988
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Čisté ruky
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1968-06-20
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The Devil Does Not Sleep
Overview: Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá kampaň') comically exposing the shortcomings of society. In the interval between each short, a committee recognising themselves in the characters on screen, voice their approval or disapproval of each film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1957-05-17
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The Last Witch
Overview: This dramatic story is situated in the town of Trnava of the 18th century. Painter Peter paints an altar-piece of the Martyrdom of St. Juliet and his model is a young girl. This is much disliked by the clergy who unjustly accuse the girl of witchcraft. She is saved from being burnt at a stake by the students of the Trnava University.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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St. Peter's Umbrella
Overview: A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Šťastie príde v nedeľu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Earthly Honor
Overview: Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of the landed estate. The impoverished peasants still seem to adhere to the old principles of peasant honor and glory, but the elections will show how easy it is to buy knightly qualities.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Slnečný kúpeľ
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Shop on Main Street
Overview: In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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Pustý dvor
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1979-02-23
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Adam Chvojka vicerichtár
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Uzlíky nádeje
Overview: Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human stories, the common denominator of which is suffering and existential threat.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Rajský plyn
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Javorová fujarka
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Mišo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Song of the Grey Pigeon
Overview: An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war itself. The title comes from a wounded pigeon under the care of one of the youngsters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Tri razy svitá ráno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1962-05-11
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Živá voda
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Night Riders
Overview: Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of the Wild West, the gunshots go off on the Slovak-Polish border. Michal Docolomansky as the horse smuggler and Radoslav Brzobohaty as the customs officer from Prague meet in Holly's Night Riders in a western-like confrontation set in the insecure years of the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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Pokorené rieky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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Jánošík
Overview: This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part talks about Jánošík's childhood, studies and return to his native village. In the second part Jánošík leaves for the hills, where he organizes his band of brigands and starts an anti-feudal resistance. The film concludes with Jánošík's execution.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1963-08-23
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Tam za lesem
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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Bez svatozáře
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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Človek na moste
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1972-08-28
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Hordubal
Overview: After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-04-25
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Neprebudený
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Zbojnícky tanec
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Stud
Overview: The drama offers Arnošt Pánek, chairman of the National Committee, as the protagonist of the story. Pánek is disturbed by news of the arrest of his protégé Kvasil – chairman of a JZD agricultural cooperative in the nearby village of Spádová. He is responsible for the revival of a neglected village, but is now accused of theft, fraud, and – on top of that – the rape of an under-aged girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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An Honest Thief
Overview: Set in Bratislava in the 1930s, about a clerk at a humanitarian foundation who is unjustly accused of embezzling a large sum of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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A Pact with the Devil
Overview: A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to defend themselves, but when they find out that nobody believes them - neither the school principal nor even their own parents - they decide to accomplish what they have been falsely accused of. And although their clumsy attempts are mostly comic, at one point they almost cause a big tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1967-12-28
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Lúčka, na ktorej spáva vietor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Výšiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Štyridsaťštyri
Overview: Drama about the rebellion of the Trencín Infantry Regiment against its superior officers in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, at the end of the First World War. It was the biggest and deadliest rebellion in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1958-02-14
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Igor a výmyselníci
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Tuba plná peny
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Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Majster zlodejského cechu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Naši pred bránami
Overview: A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village home blinded by the vision of a big career and easy earning of money in the capital city.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Zločin slečny Bacilpýšky
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1971-04-23
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Nudity
Overview: Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Christmas Wafer
Overview: Lovely overview of traditional Slovak Christmas.
Genres: Family TV Movie Music
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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The Bride of the Mountains
Overview: A balladic story situated in a Slovak mountain region before the 2nd World War. A young man returns to his native village after many years. There he meets Zuna, a mysterious girl of the forest, who opens his eyes to the charming nature to perceive hidden corners of the world and of his own soul.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Zlozor
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Príbeh potulného scholasta
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Tie malé výlety
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-05-18
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Ďaleko je do neba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-02-26
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Maple and Juliana
Overview: A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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Field Lilies
Overview: Two repatriated soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after the First World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-02-02
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Katera
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Deň, ktorý neumrie
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Genres: War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1974-08-23
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The Southern Mail
Overview: Based on the eponymous novel by Ladislav Ballek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1988-04-07
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Do zbrane, kuruci
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe
Overview: A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1976-07-02
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Stretnutie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1975-06-19
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I Wouldn't Leave Tereza for Any Other Girl
Overview: An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet...
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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Toni, You're Crazy
Overview: In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities of the dead people's little cottage, totally ignorant of the fate of eight-year old Ruda, whom the childless couple took from a children's home and adopted. Fortunately, an elderly lonesome uncle named Tony remains in the empty cottage and decides to take care of the boy, nicknamed Münchie after Baron Münchhausen for his wild imagination.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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Otec ma zderie tak, či tak...
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Rok na dedine
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Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Živý bič
Overview: A film about the dramatic lives ofthe people of the village of Ráztoka during WW I. Women are left without husbands, families fall apart, finding themselves on the verge of poverty. Eva, the main heroine, is going through difficulties after her husband was drafted to the army. Her defilement and her tragic death cause a rebellion by which the village inhabitants finally stand up against their unbearable situation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1967-01-19
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The Nun's Night
Overview: A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Great Solitude
Overview: In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Krutá ľúbosť
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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The Royal Chase
Overview: Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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Eagle Feather
Overview: The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film "The Copper Tower". After two years spent in prison because of smuggling they return to the Stratená dolina valley and plan a revenge on police lieutenant Pardek.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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The Coward
Overview: In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Ako sa Vinco zaťal
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Čierne ovce
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Dom na rázcestí
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Pole neorané
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Žena z Vrchov
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1956-03-02
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Nevera po slovensky
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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