The House on the Volcano

The House on the Volcano

1929 · 64 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama

An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.

Directed by Hamo Bek-Nazaryan · Written by Pavel Folyan

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