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My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan

My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan

Historical truth is composed of the silence of the dead

2016 · 110 min · ★ 5.1 · Drama

1917, the Crimea. Fanny Kaplan is blind and out of prison. She starts an affair with her doctor, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov. which ends unexpectedly when she runs into her first lover: the terrorist who she went to prison for and who is now in the Russian secret police. Soon after, she is accused of an assassination attempt on Dimitry's brother: Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin.

Directed by Olena Demianenko · Written by Dmytro Tomashpolskyi

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