

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
1985-01-03 · 95 min · ★ 6.7
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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- Directors
- Aleksei German
- Production companies
- Lenfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Andrei BoltnevIvan Lapshin
Nina RuslanovaNatasha Adasova
Andrey MironovKhanin
Aleksei ZharkovOkoshkin
Aleksandr FilippenkoZanadvorov
Yuriy KuznetsovSuperintendent
Semyon FaradaDzhatiev
Valeriy FilonovPobuzhinskiy
Andrey DudarenkoKashin
Boris VoytsekhovskiyOsovets
Yuriy PomogaevSolovyov
Yuri AroyanActor
Anatoliy ShvederskiyActor
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