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Circus
Цирк
1936 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
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In 1936 they made a movie called "Circus" [0], very popular in the Soviet Union, summarised here [1]. It is about a white woman protecting her half-black child from racist villains. It was a personal favourite of Stalin's. Note that this is High Stalinism, not 1920s USSR.
Just thought I'd put that out there, for no particular reason whatsoever.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028420/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0015985/