My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-01-01

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1034 Reviews)

Director:

Aleksey German

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Andrei Boltnev Nina Ruslanova Andrey Mironov Aleksei Zharkov

Writer:

Yuri German (novel)

Eduard Volodarskiy

Fullplot:

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.

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