My Friend Ivan Lapshin
7.4
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
26 people
Andrei Boltnev
Ivan Lapshin
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Nina Ruslanova
Natasha Adasova
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Andrey Mironov
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Aleksandr Filippenko
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Yuriy Kuznetsov
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Semyon Farada
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Valeriy Filonov
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Zinaida Adamovich
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Anatoly Slivnikov
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Sergey Kushakov
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Aleksei German Director · Eduard Volodarskiy Screenplay Yuri German Author
United States release May 22, 1987 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Мой друг Иван Лапшин
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Мой друг Иван Лапшин
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · January 3, 1985
Theatrical · In cinemas nationwide
United States · May 22, 1987
Limited theatrical · Los Angeles, California
United States
March 24, 1987 · Premiere · New York New Directors & New Films Festival
Argentina
March 3, 1988 · Theatrical
November 30, 2014 · Premiere · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Denmark
May 10, 1991 · Theatrical
Finland
September 27, 1986 · Theatrical
France
October 15, 1986 · Theatrical
Hungary
October 8, 1987 · Theatrical
Italy
December 1, 1986 · Premiere · Sorrento Film Festival
September 1, 2013 · Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Japan
March 25, 1989 · Theatrical
November 1, 1998 · Premiere · Tokyo International Film Festival
Lithuania
March 20, 2014 · Premiere · Vilnius International Film Festival
Netherlands
August 27, 1987 · Theatrical
October 28, 1990 · TV
Poland
July 15, 2019 · Premiere · Transatlantyk Film Festival
Russia
April 6, 2010 · Physical
November 14, 2019 · Theatrical
Slovenia
November 15, 2014 · Premiere · Ljubljana International Film Festival
Sweden
January 18, 1988 · Theatrical
January 25, 2014 · Premiere · Göteborg International Film Festival
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