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Overview. During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch have spread and one night she is taken away, not to the infamous Lubyanka prison, but to the Kremlin to ...
An Ordinary Execution succeeds in expressing the fear and dread people felt living under the reign of Stalin. Anyone could report you to the authorities and the Lubyanka prison was never far away for anyone.
- Marc Dugain
- F Comme Film
Feb 3, 2010 · AN ORDINARY EXECUTION. The setting is autumn 1952. A young woman urologist and hypnotic healer, who works in a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow, tries desperately to get pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist who only survives thanks to the love that binds him to his wife.
- France
- StudioCanal
- Une exécution ordinaire
- 2009
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An Ordinary Execution. Marc Dugain. Novel: Marc Dugain. Dugain tells a story about an imagined encounter between the aging Joseph Stalin and a young doctor with extraordinary healing abilities, brought in to treat the escalating physical woes of his old age after his own doctor has been 'purged.'.
Nov 23, 2010 · Discover the best of the city, first. It’s 1952 and Moscow is paranoid after years of Stalinist purges. Anna (Marina Hands), a young doctor, fears the faith-healing skills which make her popular...
An Ordinary Execution (French: Une exécution ordinaire) is a 2010 French drama film directed by Marc Dugain based on his 2007 novel.
