

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
User score
75 votes

Released
January 3, 1985
1h 35m
Russian

Andrei Boltnev
Ivan Lapshin

Nina Ruslanova
Natasha Adasova

Andrey Mironov
Khanin

Aleksei Zharkov
Okoshkin

Aleksandr Filippenko
Zanadvorov

Yuriy Kuznetsov
Superintendent

Semyon Farada
Dzhatiev

Valeriy Filonov
Pobuzhinskiy
Zinaida Adamovich
Patrikeyevna
Anatoly Slivnikov
Bychkov

Andrey Dudarenko
Kashin
Sergey Kushakov
Yegorov

Boris Voytsekhovskiy
Osovets

Yuriy Pomogaev
Solovyov
Anatoliy Aristov
Khokhryakov

Yuri Aroyan
Actor

Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Actor
Natalya Laburtseva
Actress

Valeriy Sidorenko
Drummer
Lidiya Volkova