The House of Special Purpose 2009

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An octogenarian haunted by his past makes one last journey home to Russia where he remembers his youth in St. Petersburg at the czar's Winter Palace and the bloody revolution that caused sweeping changes in his country and in his life. Original.

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• Noah Barleywater Runs Away (2011)
• Crippen (2006)
• The Absolutist (2012)
• Next of Kin (2009)