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The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

Genres

Documentary

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A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

47 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

11 January 1976

Country

Cast

Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

Himself

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Herself

Kirill Gradov

Kirill Gradov

Narrator - poems read by

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