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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| Credited cast: | |||
| Andrei Boltnev | ... | Ivan Lapshin | |
| Nina Ruslanova | ... | Natasha Adasova | |
| Andrey Mironov | ... | Khanin | |
| Aleksey Zharkov | ... | Okoshkin | |
| Zinaida Adamovich | ... | Patrikeyevna | |
| Aleksandr Filippenko | ... | Zanadvorov | |
| Yuriy Kuznetsov | ... | Superintendent | |
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Valeriy Filonov | ... | Pobuzhinskiy |
| Anatoly Slivnikov | ... | Bychkov | |
| Andrey Dudarenko | ... | Kashin | |
| Semyon Farada | |||
| Nina Usatova | |||
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Valeri Kuzin | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Lidiya Volkova | |||
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Yuri Aroyan | |||
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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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Country:
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RussianRelease Date:
January 1985 (Soviet Union) See more »Also Known As:
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Astrakhan, RussiaEdit
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The 'Urka' (Criminal) personage who stabbed Khanin and then later shot and killed by Ivan Lapshin played by not a professional actor, but by real criminal. Aleksey German made this decision to add more realism to these scenes. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I just heard about German, I mean I knew something about his Krustaliov but I couldn't find it. Now, reading all this reviews about him, little in number but strong in appreciations as they are, I wanted to see his Ivan Lapshin. I just managed to see it with good quality, English subtitles on Youtube. I was amazed, German is in a league of his own, like Bela Tarr but more enjoyable. No wonder he made only six or something movies in his entire career. If all the other movies of him are of the same quality as this one I can understand the effort that he puts in such works of art. His long takes are so much better than,let's say, those artificial ones of Angelopoulos. He is so much more modest than a lot of filmmakers who wonder around at festivals hunting an award or two. He is pristine, alive, every shot of this movie contains something magical. Bravo!