
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.

Andrei Boltnev
Ivan Lapshin

Nina Ruslanova
Natasha Adasova

Andrey Mironov
Khanin

Aleksei Zharkov
Okoshkin

Aleksandr Filippenko
Zanadvorov

Yuriy Kuznetsov
Superintendent

Semyon Farada
Джатиев

Nina Usatova
Valeriy Filonov
Pobuzhinskiy
Zinaida Adamovich
Patrikeyevna

Anatoly Slivnikov
Bychkov

Andrey Dudarenko
Kashin

Valeri Kuzin
Narrator (voice)
Sergey Kushakov

Yuri Aroyan

Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Lidiya Volkova
Natalya Laburtseva
Vladimir Tochilin

Boris Voytsekhovskiy
Aleksei German
Aleksei German, Eduard Volodarskiy
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