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My Friend Ivan Lapshin

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.

Top Cast

  • Andrei Boltnev

    Andrei Boltnev

    Ivan Lapshin

  • Nina Ruslanova

    Nina Ruslanova

    Natasha Adasova

  • Andrey Mironov

    Andrey Mironov

    Khanin

  • Aleksei Zharkov

    Aleksei Zharkov

    Okoshkin

  • Aleksandr Filippenko

    Aleksandr Filippenko

    Zanadvorov

  • Yuriy Kuznetsov

    Yuriy Kuznetsov

    Superintendent

  • Semyon Farada

    Semyon Farada

    Джатиев

  • Nina Usatova

    Nina Usatova

  • Valeriy Filonov

    Valeriy Filonov

    Pobuzhinskiy

Overview

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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