--- Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote: About Little Vera, it was presented, in South Africa at the time as an
allegory for the 'decay' of socialism.
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Well, it's about no-hope young people in Odessa (I think) in the late 80s. I think it may well be that the general mood could be found much earlier in the USSR, just not presented on film. I pray they don't make Vera in her late 40s into some kind of fashion maven. I fear they will. Actually upon second thought, since that's what a lot of late-Soviet Veras turned into, maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
Do you know the name of that Gorby-era film in which a girl is raped, and her father, an ex-cop, embarks on revenge? I saw it a couple of years ago but don't recollect what it was called.
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