Toadfish Monastery

Since no one has posted a new challenge for a while, it's up to me to not let the thread die.


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This time a true classic. Also a blockbuster of its time with many* millions of viewers in the year of release.
For a very long time considered the gold standard in the genre.

*I won't give the specific number or someone will google it

Im Westen nichts Neues?

Nope


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Linguini's 'How I Did Strange Things To A Large Farmyard Animal?
Kafka, 'Der Proceß?

Neither


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Is it a silent movie?

No


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The Gun

Nope

Lots of guns in this but not in the title


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For Whom the Bell Tolls?

Nope


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Give us a clue - is it set in Russia?

I could be very literal and nasty and say no, since the territory now belongs to another state. But for the purpose of this riddle the plot can be assumed to take place in Russia.


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One of the version for War and Peace? or Anna Karenina?