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TITLE Mumu (1961)

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DISABILITY Deaf

COUNTRY USSR

LENGTH 71

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Yevgeny Teterin

CAST Afanasiy Kochetkov

Nina Grebeshkova

Yelena Polevitskaya

NOTES B/W

A man born deaf and speaking impaired is sent from his

village to work as a keeper at a town estate. The move

upsets him until he find romance with a washerwoman. To

his consternation their employer makes her marry someone

else. The man takes solace in looking after a puppy which is

the runt of the litter. He calls the dog, Mumu, and soon it is

lively and healthy. But when it snaps at his employer she tells

him to get rid of it. He throws the dog in a river and sets off

for his home village.

 


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