The Owl (1924)
The film is about the class struggle in the village between the various strata of society on the eve of Soviet powerformation.
Top billed cast
Abbas Mirza SharifzadehKhan
Agharza GuliyevAli
Mohsun Sanani- Aleksandr Makovski
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