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A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.
Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.
The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
The Moroccan city of Marrakech was once the destination of caravans where different cultures came together. Today, the city is a popular tourist destination, especially for Europeans. The documentary takes a closer look at one of the old riads, the traditional courtyard houses, and shows the everyday life of a family living there, caught between tradition and modernity.
