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Palace for the People

Sep 13, 2018 | IMDB 8.7

76 min Watch Now

Documentary

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

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Anna Sukneva, Prof. Ilya Lezhava, Prof. Natalia Dushkina, Sofia Tugarinova, Irina Pigareva, Marina Pigareva, Ivan Pigarev, Nikolay Pigarev, Dragan Zorić, Nikola Živanić

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