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The Thief

He'll steal your heart!

1997 · 1h 36m · R Crime, Drama
Directed by Pavel Chukhray

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Overview

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...

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88%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It's a superb film in the classic style of screen storytelling, at once intimate and epic, possessed of lyrical beauty and suffused with that mixture of warmth, suffering and rueful humor so characteristic of Russian films.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

It is clear fairly early in The Thief that the title character represents Stalin, and it's one of the strengths of the film that the symbolism never gets in the way of a convincing, heartbreaking story.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

As dramatically compelling as it is heavily metaphorical...

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh

...compelling, great-looking...

John Hartl, Film.com
Fresh

The Thief is a beautiful movie about terrible things that happen to a widow and her young son.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

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