72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Storm Center

Daniel Taradash
USA
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Alicia Hull, widow od a soldier killed in the Great War, is a librarian at the Kenport Public Library and comforts herself with the thought that her work is helping to guide the city's new generations. The authorities ask Alicia to take out of circulation The Communist Dream, a book which they consider subversive. At first Alicia accepts the petition, but later decides that the book's availability reaffirms her country's ideals of liberty. She is fired and martha Lockridge, her former assitant and good friend, takes her place. 

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Daniel Taradash (USA)
Production
Phoenix Productions (USA)
Julian Blaustein
Running Time
86 m.
Country
USA
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