Apartment is as Quiet as Paper

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Apartment is as Quiet as Paper

2021

0h 2m

5.5(2 votes)

Animation

Overview

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

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1 featured cast member

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Mikhail Efremov

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Directed by: Ekaterina Filippova
Written by: Ekaterina Filippova

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