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The Virtuous Sin

George Cukor
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The Discreet Charm of George Cukor

December 13, 2013 - January 7, 2014

During WWI, a wife offers herself to a general in order to save her husband from the firing squad. In her search for freedom the young woman finds true love with the general, and her husband eventually agrees to let her go her way.

DIRECTOR
George Cukor
YEAR
1930
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
80 minutes
FORMAT
35mm
START DATE
January 2, 2014

Cukor adapts a Hungarian play to a fairy-tale Russian setting, with modern and unconventional characters. During the First World War a wife offers herself to a general in order to save her husband from the firing squad. In her search for freedom the young woman finds true love with the general, and her husband eventually agrees to let her go her way.

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