My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)

6.8/10 95 min Drama

Overview

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

Cast

Andrei Boltnev

Ivan Lapshin

Nina Ruslanova

Natasha Adasova

Andrey Mironov

Khanin

Aleksei Zharkov

Okoshkin

Aleksandr Filippenko

Zanadvorov

Yuriy Kuznetsov

Superintendent

Semyon Farada

Джатиев

Nina Usatova

Valeriy Filonov

Pobuzhinskiy

Andrey Dudarenko

Kashin

Yuri Aroyan

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Boris Voytsekhovskiy

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