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My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985·1h 40m
Drama
IMDb Rating
★ 7.4/10
2,999 votes

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.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1985 drama movie directed by Aleksei German, starring Aleksey Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.4/10 from 2,999 votes and runs 1h 40m.

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Director
Aleksei German
Stars
Aleksey Zharkov
Andrei Boltnev
Andrey Mironov
Nina Ruslanova
Details
1985-01-01
100 min
Movie
★ Soviet Union
★ Russian
Keywords
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