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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE: YAKOV PROTAZANOV AND SOVIET CINEMA 115
Figures 12, 13 The ‘good’ and the ‘bad’: His Call (top) made a stirring melodrama out of
émigrés scheming to recover their wealth at the expense of honest workers, while The
Tailor from Torzhok starred Ilyinsky as an innocent provincial trying to recover a winning
lottery ticket from his scheming landlady.
