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Cinematography
Blinding snow becomes psychological landscape, erasing horizon
Direction
Shepitko's final masterpiece before her death at 41
Acting
Plotnikov's martyred silence versus Gostyukhin's sweating desperation

Director
Larisa Shepitko
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