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enjoyed nothing but praise, Konstantin Yudin's films were always criticized, such was the tendency for some reason. I always felt that our political leadership treated me as a second-rate actress. But common people loved me, and that was giving me strength," Tselikovskaya later said.
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which Zharov wrote and directed specifically for his wife in 1946. The War-themed romantic comedy in which
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a German spy) but was received coolly by the critics who accused its makers of 'pandering for bad tastes' and 'the lack of progressive ideas'. Nevertheless, it came 7th in the 1946 most popular USSR film list.
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during one session and temporarily lost her job at the
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