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SOVIET UNION · 1985

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Aleksei German
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Synopsis

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.

Year1985
CountrySoviet Union
DirectorAleksei German
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