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A Big Family

A Big Family

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 5, 1954

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama

User Score

59%

Original Title

Большая семья

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Director

Iosif Kheifits

Description

Drama based on the novel by Vsevolod Kochetov “The Zhurbin Family”. The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.