Movie Drama
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.
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Andrei Boltnev Nina Ruslanova Andrey Mironov Aleksei Zharkov Aleksandr Filippenko Yuriy Kuznetsov Semyon Farada Nina Usatova Valeriy Filonov Zinaida Adamovich Andrey Dudarenko Valeri Kuzin Lidiya Volkova Anatoly Slivnikov Yuri Aroyan Sergey Kushakov Natalya Laburtseva Anatoli Shvedersky Vladimir Tochilin Boris Voytsekhovskiy Svetlana Kireeva Larisa Solovyova Anna Nikolaeva
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