17 Oct 2022
Pelageya
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Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them seem compatible but eventually drove them apart. Their story reflects, to a degree, the situation of anyone who has ever shared the life of another.
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Michèle Chicoine Donna
Jackie Burroughs Gail
John Sullivan Ray Bellew Aino Pirskanen Gino Marrocco Evelyn Gordon
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