Cruelty (1959)
Жестокость
The first years of Soviet power in East Siberia. Malyshev ,deputy chief of Criminal Investigation Department, a Komsomol member, wins over to the Soviet power a former field-hand and now a bandit Lazar Baukin, and the latter tells him about Vorontsov, the gang leader. Malyshev guarantees Baukin’s freedom. However the chief arrests him in order to reap laurels of catching the gang leader. Malyshev is in despair - he has brought under execution the man who has fully trusted him. The situation gets worse due to his personal drama and Malyshev commits suicide.
- Date of release
- 1959-08-06
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Vladimir Skuybin
Casting
- Georgiy Yumatov — Венька Малышев
- Nikolay Kryuchkov — Ефрем Ефремович, начальник УГРо
- Boris Andreyev — Лазарь Евтифьевич Баукин
- Aleksandr Susnin — Санька, сотрудник УГРо (от имени которого ведется повествование)
- Vladimir Andreyev — Яков Узелков, корреспондент
- Klavdiya Khabarova — Кланька Звягина, любовница Воронцова
- Apollon Yachnitskiy — Константин Иванович Воронцов, главарь банды
- Margarita Zhigunova — Юлька Мальцева, медсестра
- Nikolay Pogodin — сотрудник угрозыска
- Vyacheslav Bogachyov — сотрудник угрозыска
- Alexei Korotyukov — сотрудник угрозыска
- Iosif Kolin — доктор Гинзбург
Interesting facts
Cruelty is a 1959 Soviet dramatic film directed by Vladimir Skuybin and based on Pavel Nilin's 1956 novel of the same name.
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