Mikhail Zharov
Also Known As: Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov, M.I. Jaroff, M. Zharov, Михаил Иванович Жаров, Michail Iwanowitsch Scharow, Mihail Žarov, M. I. Jaroff, М. Жаров
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Birthday: October 27, 1899
Deathday: December 15, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Чужой бумажник
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-01-08
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Our Cinema
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-07-01
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Chess Fever
Overview: A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-12-21
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Engineer Kochin's Error
Overview: Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting for these blueprints...
Genres: Adventure Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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Three Comrades
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-02-13
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Peter the First, Part II
Overview: Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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Peter the First, Part I
Overview: This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
Overview: This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appreciate his acting. Another curiosity is that the film also included a minor role enacted by Richard Boleslavsky, who in 1932 directed “Rasputin and the Empress.”(9)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1915-10-20
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Bogdan Khmelnitskiy
Overview: Year 1648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bogdan Khmelnitsky gathers the army of defenders of the motherland...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-04-07
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Miss Mend
Overview: Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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Two-Buldi-Two
Overview: Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a moment to acquiesce to the White forces, casts his lot with the revolution. At the climax Buldy Jr. escapes the Whites thanks to flashy trampoline and trapeze acrobatics; the gaping enemy soldiers forget to shoot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Thunderstorm
Overview: The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-03-25
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The Village Detective
Overview: Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Aniskin and Fantomas
Overview: A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-08
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Aniskin Again
Overview: Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-14
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The White Eagle
Overview: The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-10-09
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26 Commissioners
Overview: Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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The Man from the Restaurant
Overview: During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-08-11
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Don Diego and Pelagia
Overview: The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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The Return of Maxim
Overview: The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Marionettes
Overview: The Soviet Union wants more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard, because they don't have enough power over the current king.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Love and Hate
Overview: A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-03-03
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Zharov Tells...
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-27
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Elder Sister
Overview: A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-03-06
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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Defense of Tsaritsyn
Overview: Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-03-29
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Air Taxi
Overview: A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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Outskirts
Overview: In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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A Noisy Household
Overview: A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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Twins
Overview: A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-12-24
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Road to Life
Overview: Young hobos are taken to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly built railroad to the camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-03-12
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Happy Flight
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-07-15
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Attention! The Magician Is in the City!
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-04-30
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Cain the XVIII-th
Overview: A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-08-05
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Red Leaves
Overview: A story is taking place in West Belarus where local rebels are fighting for the unification with Soviet Union during 1930-ies.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-08
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The Very Last Day
Overview: A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to the department in the morning, was most sad that tomorrow he would no longer have to go to service: tomorrow he would be retired. But the last day of his service ended tragically.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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A Girl with Guitar
Overview: A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Life in Bloom
Overview: About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in the Russian Empire, despite the fact that his ideas are not perceived by the tsarist government, the church and idealistic science. Michurin is supported by prominent scientists of the country and he continues to work hard. After the October Revolution, a small Michurin garden in the city of Kozlov (the biologist's homeland) becomes a large state nursery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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The Anna Cross
Overview: Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-05-13
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Actress
Overview: Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.
Genres: War Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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The Bear
Overview: A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late husband. They argue , duel with pistols , and fall in love while all of this is witnessed by Popova's servant Luka.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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Man in a Shell
Overview: The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-25
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Our Friend Maxim
Overview: The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes excerpts from his Maxim trilogy, and significant focus is placed on Chirkov’s role as a pedagogue and mentor to young actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The District Secretary
Overview: A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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Stepan Razin
Overview: Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of the whole army. With all the Russian land flock to him humiliated and oskorblennye.Tsar Alexey concerned the growing power Ataman. Church anathematizes Stepan collected in the march on Moscow. Regular king's troops manage to stop rebel forces near the walls Simbirska.Spodvizhniki perish, and the chieftain captured. Severe torture did not break the will of Razin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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In the Name of the Motherland
Overview: The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-19
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The Vyborg Side
Overview: The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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For Those Who Are at Sea
Overview: The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-09
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Млечный путь
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Boots
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-11-23
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Young Fritz
Overview: War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-11-23
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Overview: The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón.) The older sisters arrange to have the tsaritsa and the child sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island, Buyan. The son, having quickly grown while in the barrel, goes hunting. He ends up saving an enchanted swan from a kite bird. The swan creates a city for Prince Gvidon to rule, but he is homesick, so the swan turns him into a mosquito to help him. In this guise, he visits Tsar Saltan's court, where he stings his aunt in the eye and escapes. Back in his realm, the swan gives Gvidon a magical squirrel. But he continues to pine for home, so the swan transforms him again, this time into a fly.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-23
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Overview: As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Aelita: Queen of Mars
Overview: A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-09-24
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His Call
Overview: The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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Vassa Zheleznova
Overview: The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false and ghostly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Overview: Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-27
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