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The Forty-First

Directed by Yakov Protazanov

Starring Ada Vojtsik, Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.