My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Jan 03 1985
•2h 35m
•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.
Cast
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Andrei Boltnev
Ivan Lapshin
Nina Ruslanova
Natasha Adasova
Andrey Mironov
Khanin
Aleksei Zharkov
Okoshkin
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