FIELD OF MARS
It is 1913 and the world is a dangerous place. The Great Powers are locked into a frenzied arms race, the decadent Ottoman empire is in retreat, and the Austrian and Russian Empires intrigue ceaselessly to further their own ambitions. In St. Petersburg, the weak Tsar is preoccupied with his afflicted son and has isolated himself from his starving subjects.
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THE LAST TRAIN TO KAZAN
Moscow in the summer of 1918.
After only six months in power the Bolsheviks are threatened from all sides. The treaty at Brest-Litovsk has taken Russia out of the Great War and released a million German soldiers for a spring offensive on the Western Front. Furious, the Allies rush to support a White counter-revolution, and the Bolsheviks suddenly find themselves surrounded and at war with more than twenty different governments.
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THE WOMAN IN THE YARD
Eager to build a career in law enforcement, Korean War veteran Q.P. Waldeau becomes acting sheriff in the small costal community of Wilmington, North Carolina. But when the brutalized body of a black prostitute washes up on the bank of the Cape Fear in the hung-over early hours of New Year’s Day 1954 he confronts a professional and political dilemma with the potential to derail his ambitions.
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WASTEFALL
The world according to Forrest is a garbage dump, a surreal wasteland in which anything can happen and usually does. Through a series of circumstances beyond his control, our hero Forrest must abandon the shackles of reality and search for fulfillment amidst the debris of a cynical, disposable society. But life here ain’t all easy kids still grow up to turn against you, and love is still hard to find.”
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