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The Saratov Approach is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 9 october 2013 with Bart Johnson
The Saratov Approach (2013)
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Add to a movie listThe Saratov Approach is a 2013 dramatic thriller film about the 1998 kidnapping of two Mormon missionaries in Russia. It began a limited release on October 9, 2013, solely in Utah. Subsequently, the film was released throughout the Mormon Corridor. On January 10, 2014, the film began an expanded limited release throughout the United States,.
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The film tells the story of the 1998 kidnapping of two Mormon missionaries, Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle, in Saratov, Russia. Their kidnappers made the demand of US$300,000 ransom from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in exchange for the safe return of the two missionaries.Actors
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