
A Vintage Detective Story
1982-04-17 · 88 min · Not rated
A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.
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- Directors
- Pavel Reznikov
- Production companies
- Central Television USSR
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Sergei YurskyСлинктон / Огюст Дюпен
Yuri BogatyryovСемсон / друг Дюпена
Vsevolod Larionovпрефект
Tamara Chernovaзнатная дама
Aleksandr Shvorinминистр
Andrey KharitonovБеквит (Мелтон)
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