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'The Road to Calvary': Hard times in Mama Russia . . .

Posted by Billy Wonka on December 15, 2018 at 17:39:39:
This soapy 12-part series starts out just as WW1 is beginning. Two upper-middle-class sisters in St. Petersburg were enjoying life with one disgusted with her schlub, moneyed husband and the other ready for law school at the university.

The war happens, love happens, separations happen, despair happens, and the Russian Revolutions tears everything apart. This series is interesting because if Russia were still commie this thing wouldn't have been written. All the Bolsheviks are represented as the worst Russian Rednecks who grab and steal everything they can in the name of equality. The sisters do their best to keep their heads low despite their "noble" leanings. One husband fights White while the other Red. The most incredible things happen as if Spielberg were there tugging on the audience's heartstrings.

Vicious, senseless slaughter by the Bolsheviks frame the story and gives one an inkling that 1917 was as messy as 1789. I marveled at the rough times for everyone knowing that a young, vital Victor managed to survive the daily debacle of changing political tides. (White or Red?)

The sisters were pretty enough and the acting was serviceable. I mean, they're Russians so how am I to judge the acting?

3 wonks for being big, having a good principle cast, illustrating history with a broad brush

2 wanks for tugging emotions and being incredulous at times

NF

(Don't bother VK, it will bring up old memories.)