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A tilted shot in this film holds on the main character’s face covered in soot as she stares at a ticking clock. In this film, the camera cuts from a man slumping against a tree to a POV shot that spins around the treetops before overlaying a dream sequence depicting him celebrating his wedding. In this film, a man erratically plays the piano before the room is illuminated only by the flashes of bombs; that scene ends with the implied assault of the main character, who is carried away by her lover’s (*) cousin. In another shot from this film, the camera follows the main character as she disembarks from a bus before rising up above a crowd to depict her running through a series of tanks (10[1])while searching for Boris, who had earlier gifted her a stuffed squirrel. For 10 points, give this 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov film about the journey of Veronika during WWII, the only Soviet film to win the Palme d’Or. ■END■

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