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Monday, May 21, 2018
Aleksandr Askoldov
Actor and director whose single film destroyed his career -- via ria.ru. His Commissar (1967) was not released until 1988, having been deemed subversive. He got fired, expelled from the Communit Party, exiled from Moscow, and banned from the film industry for life.
