Russell Boyd

Russell Boyd

Russell Boyd ACS ASC (born 21 April 1944) is an Australian cinematographer. He rose to prominence with his highly praised work on Picnic at Hanging Rock, the first of several collaborations with director Peter Weir. He is also a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society and the American Society of Cinematographers. Boyd won an Oscar for Master and Commander: Far Side of the World. As a staple of Australian film production, he worked with Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and the Crocodile Dundee films. In American cinema, Shelton is most known for his comedy films, such as White Men Can't Jump, Dr. Doolittle, and Liar Liar.

  • Title: Russell Boyd
  • Popularity: 1.021
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1944-04-21
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Russell Boyd Movies

  • 2014
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    Everything Begins and Ends

    Everything Begins and Ends

    8 2014 HD

    Short documentary about making of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975) including interviews with actors, crew and Peter Weir himself.

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  • 2008
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    Not Quite Hollywood

    Not Quite Hollywood

    6.9 2008 HD

    As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

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  • 2004
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    Puttin’ on the Show: The Making of Starstruck

    Puttin’ on the Show: The Making of Starstruck

    1 2004 HD

    A documentary about the making of Gillian Armstrong's 1982 film STARSTRUCK.

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  • 2005
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    Thrills and Nuclear Spills: The Making of 'The Chain Reaction'

    Thrills and Nuclear Spills: The Making of 'The Chain Reaction'

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2007
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    Ghost Rider

    Ghost Rider

    5.575 2007 HD

    In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne...

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  • 1992
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    Forever Young

    Forever Young

    6.483 1992 HD

    A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that...

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  • 1996
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    Tin Cup

    Tin Cup

    6.027 1996 HD

    A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.

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  • 1992
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    White Men Can't Jump

    White Men Can't Jump

    6.626 1992 HD

    Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.

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  • 1998
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    Doctor Dolittle

    Doctor Dolittle

    5.707 1998 HD

    A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a...

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  • 1975
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    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    7.208 1975 HD

    In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the...

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  • 1982
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    The Year of Living Dangerously

    The Year of Living Dangerously

    6.651 1982 HD

    Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends...

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  • 1981
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    Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    7.1 1981 HD

    As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and...

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  • 1973
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    Private Collection

    Private Collection

    1 1973 HD

    A wealthy art collector and his wife have their property broken into in this strange, awkward comedy. Little does the thief realize, but the most...

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  • 2003
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    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    7.154 2003 HD

    After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase...

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  • 1986
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    Crocodile Dundee

    Crocodile Dundee

    6.412 1986 HD

    When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a...

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  • 1988
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    Crocodile Dundee II

    Crocodile Dundee II

    5.831 1988 HD

    Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

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  • 1977
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    The Last Wave

    The Last Wave

    6.737 1977 HD

    Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the...

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  • 2017
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    The Defector

    The Defector

    7.7 2017 HD

    1967, the height of the Red Scare. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is embroiled in a power struggle after discovering his spymaster has...

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  • 1995
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    Operation Dumbo Drop

    Operation Dumbo Drop

    5.164 1995 HD

    Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant...

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  • 1981
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    ...Maybe This Time

    ...Maybe This Time

    4.25 1981 HD

    Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns...

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  • 1985
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    Burke & Wills

    Burke & Wills

    4.9 1985 HD

    A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

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  • 1977
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    The Singer and the Dancer

    The Singer and the Dancer

    8.5 1977 HD

    An older woman relives the bitter memories of her past, through her friendship with a younger girl who is experiencing a very insecure relationship...

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  • 1983
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    Tender Mercies

    Tender Mercies

    6.7 1983 HD

    Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume...

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  • 2010
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    The Way Back

    The Way Back

    7 2010 HD

    At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts,...

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  • 1979
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    Dawn!

    Dawn!

    9.5 1979 HD

    Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

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  • 1994
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    No Escape

    No Escape

    6.27 1994 HD

    In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle...

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  • 1978
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    Tapak Dewata - Path of the Gods: Java and Bali

    Tapak Dewata - Path of the Gods: Java and Bali

    1 1978 HD

    A 1979 documentary on Java and Bali, written and directed by Phillip Noyce. The end credits say this film was produced for QANTAS Airways, which...

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  • 1985
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    The Perfectionist

    The Perfectionist

    1 1985 HD

    Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as...

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  • 1997
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    Liar Liar

    Liar Liar

    6.7 1997 HD

    Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to...

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  • 1991
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    Sweet Talker

    Sweet Talker

    4.643 1991 HD

    When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an...

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  • 1975
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    The Golden Cage

    The Golden Cage

    1 1975 HD

    Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu), an older Turkish migrant in Australia, works hard to achieve his dream of buying a truck, and of returning a rich man to...

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  • 1976
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    Break of Day

    Break of Day

    1 1976 HD

    Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her...

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  • 1976
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    Summer of Secrets

    Summer of Secrets

    5 1976 HD

    A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.

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  • 1983
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    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    7.2 1983 HD

    Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the...

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  • 2002
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    Dirty Deeds

    Dirty Deeds

    5.7 2002 HD

    Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during...

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  • 1984
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    Mrs. Soffel

    Mrs. Soffel

    6.069 1984 HD

    Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting...

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  • 1987
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    High Tide

    High Tide

    6.8 1987 HD

    A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident,...

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  • 1977
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    Backroads

    Backroads

    5.9 1977 HD

    Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about...

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  • 1975
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    The Man from Hong Kong

    The Man from Hong Kong

    6.688 1975 HD

    Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong...

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  • 1986
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    3 1986 HD

    The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New...

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  • 1982
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    Starstruck

    Starstruck

    5.6 1982 HD

    A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

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  • 2011
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    The Telegram Man

    The Telegram Man

    7 2011 HD

    The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.

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  • 1978
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    Gone to Ground

    Gone to Ground

    1 1978 HD

    A man is brutally beaten so he and 4 others head to the beach for refuge and relaxation. It soon becomes clear that they've been imprisoned by person...

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  • 1978
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    The Night Nurse

    The Night Nurse

    7 1978 HD

    A private nurse uncovers strange goings-on in the home where she is working.

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  • 2001
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    American Outlaws

    American Outlaws

    6.015 2001 HD

    When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young...

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  • 2001
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    Serenades

    Serenades

    5 2001 HD

    Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins...

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  • 1974
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    Between Wars

    Between Wars

    1 1974 HD

    This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up...

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  • 1992
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    Turtle Beach

    Turtle Beach

    4.6 1992 HD

    Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes...

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  • 1988
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    The Rescue

    The Rescue

    5.5 1988 HD

    A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are...

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  • 1984
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    Stanley: Every Home Should Have One

    Stanley: Every Home Should Have One

    6 1984 HD

    Stanley Dunstan is a young eccentric. The son and heir to a family fortune has eluded all attempts by his father to make him "normal", and escapes...

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  • 2005
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    Stealth

    Stealth

    5.43 2005 HD

    Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it...

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  • 1984
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    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story

    6.731 1984 HD

    In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

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  • 1989
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    In Country

    In Country

    5.4 1989 HD

    Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who...

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  • 1980
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    The Chain Reaction

    The Chain Reaction

    5.7 1980 HD

    Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

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  • 1994
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    Cobb

    Cobb

    6 1994 HD

    Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and...

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  • 1990
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    Almost an Angel

    Almost an Angel

    5.696 1990 HD

    Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the...

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  • 1990
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    Blood Oath

    Blood Oath

    5.5 1990 HD

    On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close...

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  • 1976
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    Is There Anybody There?

    Is There Anybody There?

    7 1976 HD

    A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun...

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  • 2000
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    Company Man

    Company Man

    5.1 2000 HD

    In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then...

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  • 1977
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    The Alternative

    The Alternative

    2 1977 HD

    Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take...

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three...

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