Sour Grape (1974)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 16M
Director : Bagrat Oganesyan
Synopsis
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
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