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Interview with Anthony Carpio

and is accompanied by a pair of 3D comedy shorts by the Three Stooges

Ballad of a Soldier (#148, DVD) RObin Hardy Ladybug Ladybug) adaptation of JohnRussian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he single handedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad of a Soldier is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.