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A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
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Original Language
RU

Vessovchtchnikov
On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.