Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vladimir wants to leave, but finds himself trapped by the house: the staircase seems to have no end, again and again it brings him to the same floor.
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Oleg Menshikov
Владимир Пирошников
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Alena Yakovleva
Elena Yakovleva
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Leonid Kuravlyov
дядя Миша
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Brigada
Sergei Artsybashev
Георгий Романович Старицкий
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Aleksandr Pyatkov
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Dersu Uzala
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Viktor Stepanov
скульптор Кирилл
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The Cold Summer of 1953
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Svetlana Amanova
Лариса Павловна
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Kapitolina Ilyenko
соседка Анна Кондратьевна
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The Twelve Chairs
Aleksei Shakhdin
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Aleksey Sakharov Director · Aleksandr Zhitinsky Writer Vladimir Komarov Composer
First release November 11, 1989 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Ritm
Production
Mosfilm
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Ritm
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Russia · Russia
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Original title
Лестница
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
United Arab Emirates · November 11, 1989
Theatrical
Russia · July 9, 1990
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No release date listed for United States.
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