Aleksei German
Director
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.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.narrator, imdb.stalin-s-purge, imdb.soviet-police, imdb.soviet-purge, imdb.old-wound, imdb.war-wound, imdb.totalitarian-state + 43 more, imdb.stalinism, imdb.provincial-setting, imdb.childhood-memories, imdb.multiple-time-frames, imdb.provincial-life, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.soviet-union, imdb.police-chief, imdb.winter, imdb.police-officer, imdb.suicide-attempt, imdb.interrogation, imdb.siege, imdb.raid, imdb.russia, imdb.1930s, imdb.memory, imdb.childhood, imdb.child, imdb.militia, mdblist.fresh, aspectratio.1-37-1, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.russian-speaking, imdb.memories, imdb.socialist-values, imdb.provincial-town, imdb.socialist-realism, imdb.male-protagonist, imdb.nostalgia, imdb.political-tension, imdb.1930, imdb.criminal-gang, imdb.described-as-a-stalinist-dictatorship, imdb.flashback, imdb.young-actress, imdb.russian, imdb.investigation, imdb.black-and-white-movie, imdb.police-inspector, imdb.stalin-purge, imdb.collectivism, imdb.russian-culture
Watch Providers: Klassiki
Production Companies: Lenfilm
Country: Soviet Union
Production Country:
Soviet Union
Languages:
Russian
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95 min
Jan. 3, 1985
Released
NR