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.

Directed by: Aleksei German

Written by: Aleksei German, Yuri German, Eduard Volodarskiy

Music by: Arkadi Gagulashvili

Starring: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksei Zharkov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Semyon Farada, Valeriy Filonov, Zinaida Adamovich, Anatoly Slivnikov

Genre: Drama

Released: 1985-01-03

Runtime: 95 minutes

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