A Glass of Water (1979)

August. 25,1979

7.4

| Comedy Romance

When a small state is threatened with capture by a much stronger one, only one thing can save it: the emergence of a competitor comparable to the invader. In a graceful and witty play by Scribe, hostilities unfold around a young officer, in whom the modest saleswoman of a jewelry store, the omnipotent Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen of England herself fell in love at the same time.

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Cast

Kirill Lavrov as Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

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Natalya Belokhvostikova as Anne, Queen of England

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Alla Demidova as Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

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Reviews

Diagonaldi

1979/08/25

Very well executed

Nonureva

1979/08/26

Really Surprised!

Huievest

1979/08/27

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Fatma Suarez

1979/08/28

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful