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My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Russian: Мой друг Иван Лапшин, romanized: Moy drug Ivan Lapshin) is a 1985 Soviet crime drama directed by Aleksei German and produced by Lenfilm, based on a novel by Yuri German adapted by Eduard Volodarsky. It was narrated by Valeri Kuzin.
Moy drug Ivan Lapshin: Directed by Aleksey German. With Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov. 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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- Drama
- Aleksey German
- 1985-01
Apr 8, 2023 · Starring Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov. Original title Moy drug Ivan Lapshin. Based on stories by Yuri German. Russian language with English subtitles. Plot: A police detective occupies a central role in the lives of a small Russian community in the 1930s. Addeddate.
- 95 min
As a police detective in Stalinist Russia, Ivan Lapshin (Andrei Boltnev) lives a life of extremes. At home in the communal flat he shares with other families, he is a considerate, genial...
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- Andrei Boltnev
- Aleksey German
- Drama
Moi drug Ivan Lapshin {My Friend Ivan Lapshin) is the most recent of Aleksei German's films. Finished in 1982, it was relegated to "the shelf' until 1985, when theatrical and television screenings triggered widespread discussion and controversy, not only among the Soviet intelligentsia but among the general public as well.
Adapted from popular stories written by Guerman’s own father, My Friend Ivan Lapshin wryly chronicles the material deprivations and minor satisfactions of communal life during the time in which Stalin’s cult of personality became a routine part of everyday life…and gangsters still ran rampant.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin. Directed by Aleksei German • 1984 • USSR/Russia. Russian auteur Aleksei German’s masterpiece journeys into the past, as an elderly man reflects on his childhood in a communal apartment in a mid-thirties provincial town.
