My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
- Original title
- Мой друг Иван Лапшин
- Directed by
- Aleksei Yuryevich German
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 68 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In a small Soviet town during the 1930s, a police investigator named Ivan Lapshin hunts a violent criminal. The story is remembered through the eyes of a boy who witnessed those events decades earlier.
slow-burnbleakmelancholicgrittyatmosphericnostalgicunflinchingintrospective
What happens
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Russian: Мой друг Иван Лапшин, romanized: Moy drug Ivan Lapshin) is a 1985 Soviet crime drama directed by Aleksei German and produced by Lenfilm, based on a novel by Yuri German adapted by Eduard Volodarsky. It was narrated by Valeri Kuzin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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