1919. Gleb Prokhorov, a worker from St. Petersburg, is sent on a mission by the party to lead a small food supply detachment with a mandate signed by Lenin to a village to get bread for starving Petrograd. But in an unequal battle with the kulaks, the entire food supply detachment is killed, and the wounded Prokhorov passes the mandate on to his thirteen-year-old son, Glebka...
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Yuriy Bogolyubov
Gleb Prokhorov
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Nikolai Lebedev Director · Arkadi Mlodik Writer Aleksandr Vlasov Writer
First release May 19, 1964 · Produced in Russia · Original title Мандат
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Lenfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Мандат
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 19, 1964
Premiere
Russia · October 26, 1964
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No release date listed for United States.
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