The movie was a commercial disappointment in theaters, but found some success on cable and home video.
The movie itself never made international release, but found its way through the internet.
With the new openness in Soviet society, the movie has finally found life.
The movie did not find an audience, however, and there were only $18 million in domestic receipts, below the film's budget.
The movie starts to unravel at just about the halfway mark, and doesn't find itself again until the end.
That's almost $1 billion more than theaters made in 2008, despite the fact that fewer movies found their way to the silver screen.
The movie also found place in hit list of Manorama 2010.
Eventually, the filmmakers decided that the movie would find its audience.
We shouldn't be surprised, then, that movies have found their way into the curriculum, just as fiction did during the last century.
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