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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Directed by
Aleksei German
1985
1h 35m
Drama
7.5
83%
76%
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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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Cast of My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Andrei Boltnev
Ivan Lapshin
Nina Ruslanova
Natasha Adasova
Andrey Mironov
Khanin
Aleksei Zharkov
Okoshkin
Aleksandr Filippenko
Zanadvorov
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Superintendent
Semyon Farada
Джатиев
Nina Usatova
Valeriy Filonov
Pobuzhinskiy
Zinaida Adamovich
Patrikeyevna
Anatoly Slivnikov
Bychkov
Andrey Dudarenko
Kashin
Valeri Kuzin
Narrator (voice)
Sergey Kushakov
Yuri Aroyan
Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Lidiya Volkova
Natalya Laburtseva
Vladimir Tochilin
Boris Voytsekhovskiy
Svetlana Kireeva
Larisa Solovyova
Anna Nikolayeva
Yuriy Pomogaev
Solovyov
Aleksei German
Director / Writer
Valentina Goroschnikova
Producer
Viktor Izvekov
Producer
My Friend Ivan Lapshin Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Walter Goodman
Beneath the camouflage of the look of time past, ''Ivan'' is makeshift melodrama.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
The film is challenging, German playing with time, film stocks and shooting styles, his cinema fractured to give the abstract impression of distant memories...once what German's trying to do sinks in, Lapshin becomes a potent symbol of the Stalinist era.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
As "fifty years and five blocks" would imply, memory is viewed here as something slippery; almost tangible yet just out of reach.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Anyone with a serious interest in Soviet cinema won't want to pass it up.
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