Tender Age (2000)

Director
Sergey Solovyov

Main cast
Dmitri Solovyov; Yelena Kamayeva; Nikolay Chindyaykin; Valentin Gaft; Sergey Garmash

Genres
Drama, Romance

Description
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...


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