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Of all the cinematic genres that have captured the public’s imagination, few are as grand in scale, as primal in
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Introduction The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, known internationally by its Russian acronym VGIK (Vsesoyuznyi Gosudarstvennyi Institut Kinematografii), stands as one