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A young man from a poor family, Egor Dmitrievich Glumov, motivated by ambition, wants to make a career. He deftly flatters, hypocrites, and obsequies, skillfully exploiting the weaknesses of his patrons, and secretly ridicules their stupidity and vulgarity in his diary.
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RU
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.