Jan 03, 1985
95 min
Full-HD

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Lenfilm

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

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