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Stories Set in Odesa
Odesa is a Black Sea port famous for its grand staircase down to the water. Traders' humor runs it — this port laughs at everything, especially itself — and Eisenstein's pram descent made film history on those steps. Battleship Potemkin and Transporter 3. Open Odesa on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 3 books and 10 movies set in Odessa.
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration showing support which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a…
Transporter 3
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route he has to contend with thugs who want to…
What Men Talk About
Four old friends - Kamil Lesha Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of…
Déjà vu
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor who escaped to Odesa USSR and organized his own bootleg…
Everything Is Illuminated
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by…
The Adventures of the Electronic
Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human and its dream is to become a real…
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the…
Liquidation
The year is 1946. World War II is over but it doesn't mean that there is no one to fight with. The post-war city of Odessa is ruled by serial killer prison-escapees and former Nazi collaborators. Fallen into disfavor…
Jolly Fellows
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays…
Odessa
Odessa August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris a journalist and foreign affairs specialist and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit Boris’ in-laws Grigori Iosifovich and Raisa…
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