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Danielle Steel's Zoya [1995]


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Review date: 2007-07-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

Say what you will about Danielle Steel it's true her books are not high brow works of literature but they are none-the-less entertaining.

The TV adaptations of her books are exactly the same not fantastic oscar worthy movies but the perfect way to while away an afternoon.

Zoya is one of my favourites as I love the history surounding the lead character. Ms. Steel certainly goes to alot of effort to research her books and it shows.
We follow Zoya a fictional Countess a friend of the Tsar's Children though her life of privilage in Russian and the subsequant revolution to Paris during the first world war. We then leave Paris and head to America for both the great depression and the second world war and onwards. She loses many loved ones along the way but the story is essentially of a woam who's spirit cannot be crushed no matter what life throws at her who is above all a surviver.

My only gripe is that Ms. Steel seems to derive Drama from loss and tragedy. You can't fault her it certainly is dramatic but after a while you do start to wish she'd leave her characters alone to be happy for just a little while but instead she rips something else from them. It does get a little depressing after a while but there is always a happy ending of some description so she does make up for it in the end.

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Actor(s):
Diana Rigg
Melissa Gilbert
Bruce Boxleitner

Creators:
Melissa Gilbert (Primary Contributor)
Bruce Boxleitner (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Contender Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
EAN: 5030305104429
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-04-17
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 171 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1995
Language: English (Original Language)

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