Favorite (1976)

Original title

Favoritul

Directed by

Vasile Brescanu

Genre

crime film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 12m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A jockey investigates the suspicious death of a friend during a horse race. The film follows his search for the truth among the dangerous world of horse racing.

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What happens

The Favorite (Russian: Фаворит, romanized: Favorit) is a two-part film based on the 1962 detective novel of British writer Dick Francis, Dead Cert. For the first time the Soviet Central Television was demonstrated on 13 and 14 September 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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