My Friend Ivan Lapshin(Мой друг Иван Лапшин)
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Soviet Union · 1984
1h 35m
Director Aleksey German
Starring Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksei Zharkov
Genre Drama
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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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