
Lisa and Elise
1996-12-31 · 76 min · ★ 8.5
A princess falls in love with a musician and separates from her husband, for which she is separated from her daughter Eliza and expelled from home. In her new marriage, she has a second daughter, Liza, and the sisters do not yet know about each other's existence. One fine day the royal family comes to the city where they live...
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- Directors
- Aleksandr Zguridi, Nana Kldiashvili
- Production companies
- DAK, Tsentrnauchfilm
- Countries
- Russia
- Status
- Released
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Svetlana Amanova
Mikhail Dorozhkin
Nina Krachkovskaya
Yuriy Vasilev
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