01 Nov 2012
Parvaneh
Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. The only things she has got to know yet are the rural area surrounding the centre and the centre itself.
The Land of Hope
A Clean Powerful Picture, which You Owe it to Yourself and family to See
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer.
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Alice Brady Marya Nisko
Jason Robards Sr. Sascha Rabinoff
Ben Hendricks Jr. Jan
Schuyler Ladd Serge Kosmanski
Larry Wheat Stephen Ross
Martha McGraw Sophia
Betty Carsdale Mildred St. John
Fuller Mellish Josef Marinoff
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