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The Sisters (1957 film)

1957 film

The Sisters (Russian: Сёстры, romanized: Syostry) is a 1957[1] Soviet epic film directed by Grigori Roshal.[2] It based on Sisters (1918–1922), the first part of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's The Road to Calvary trilogy.[3][4][5]

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Production

The Sisters was filmed in St. Petersburg, including in the Summer Garden.[6] Music was composed by Dmitry Kabalevsky.[7]

Plot

The Russian Empire during the First World War; two sisters in Petrograd pursue romance in the runup to the Russian Revolution.[8][9]

Release

The Sisters was released in the Soviet Union on 24 September 1957, and in the West in 1959.[10]

It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1957, with 42.5 million tickets sold.[11]

References

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    "Soviet Film". January 11, 1974 – via Google Books.
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    Rollins, Peter C.; O'Connor, John E. (January 11, 1997). Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 9780879727550 – via Google Books.
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    Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (January 11, 1973). "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". Macmillan – via Google Books.
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    "Bundesarchiv — Recherche — Detailansicht — Der Leidensweg Teil I — Die Schwestern (1957)".
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    "The International Encyclopedia of Film". January 11, 1972 – via Google Books.
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    Раскина, Ирина. "5. Кадр из фильма «Сёстры» (1957)".
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    Craggs, Stewart R. (May 3, 2019). Soundtracks: International Dictionary of Composers of Music for Film. Routledge. ISBN 9780429777431 – via Google Books.
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    "The Sisters (1957)" – via letterboxd.com.
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    "Сестры 1957 смотреть онлайн ретро фильм в хорошем качестве". retrogid.ru.
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    Christie, Ian; Taylor, Professor Richard; Taylor, Richard (October 12, 2012). The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge. ISBN 9781135082512 – via Google Books.
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    Kudryavtsev, Sergey (4 July 2006). "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате" [Domestic Films in Soviet Film Distribution]. LiveJournal (in Russian). Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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