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Amphibian Man of 1962 and The Shape of Water
The 1962 soviet film originally titled “Chelovek-amfibiya” (Amphibian Man) got media attention after the fame of four Academy winning “The Shape of Water” which shares similar lines of plot. The 1962 science romance was directed by Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadi Kazansky with strong cinematic and thematic influence of socialist realism. The film had strong critical…