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  2. A Marriage Proposal - Wikipedia

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    Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, a long-time neighbour of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, has come to propose marriage to Chubukov's 25-year-old daughter, Natalya Stepanovna.After he has asked and received joyful permission to marry Natalya, she is invited into the room, and he tries to convey to her the proposal.

  3. They Fought for Their Country - Wikipedia

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    One of the soldiers of the regiment, Pyotr Lopakhin (Vasily Shukshin), who gives the impression of a merry fellow and a joker, goes to a nearby village for salt and a bucket to cook freshly caught crayfish in. Relying on his talkative charm, Lopakhin makes a request to an old Cossack woman (Angelina Stepanova) but is met with contempt as the ...

  4. Stepan's Remembrance - Wikipedia

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    Stepan's Remembrance (Russian: Степанова памятка, romanized: Stepanova pamyatka) is a 1977 Soviet children's film directed by Konstantin Yershov. [1] It is an adaptation of Pavel Bazhov 's stories based on the Ural region Russian folklore.

  5. Character sketch - Wikipedia

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    Character sketches are usually identified by irony, humor, exaggeration, and satire. The term originated in portraiture , where the character sketch is a common academic exercise. The artist performing a character sketch attempts to capture an expression or gesture that goes beyond coincident actions and gets to the essence of the individual.

  6. ‘Sketch’ Review: All the Monsters One Kid Can ... - AOL

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    Since the death of her mother, 10-year-old Amber Wyatt (Bianca Belle) has been bothered by all sorts of dark thoughts. Rather than act on those impulses, Amber commits her most monstrous ideas to ...

  7. A Month in the Country (play) - Wikipedia

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    Natalya falls in love with Aleksei, but so does her ward Vera, the Islaevs' 17-year-old foster daughter. To rid herself of her rival, Natalya proposes that Vera should marry a rich old neighbour, but the rivalry remains unresolved. Rakitin struggles with his love for Natalya, and she wrestles with hers for Aleksei, while Vera and Aleksei draw ...

  8. Two Women (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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    Two Women (Russian: Две женщины, Dve zhenshchiny) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud.It is based on Ivan Turgenev's 1872 play A Month in the Country (originally written as Two Women in 1855).

  9. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Wikipedia

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    Many well known actresses such as Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Zhanna Bolotova, Irina Kupchenko, Natalya Sayko, Valentina Telichkina and Margarita Terekhova auditioned for the part, but most of them did not like the script, so the part eventually went to the director’s wife, Vera Alentova.