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Sergey OVCHAROV
Сергей ОВЧАРОВ
Sergueï OVTCHAROV
USSR, 1986, 89mn
Colour, fiction
Levsha
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Левша
The Left-Handed
Le Gaucher
Directed by :
Sergey OVCHAROV
(Сергей ОВЧАРОВ)
Writing credits :
Sergey OVCHAROV
(Сергей ОВЧАРОВ)
Cast
Vladimir GOSTIUKHIN
(Владимир ГОСТЮХИН) ...Platov
Leonid KURAVLYOV
(Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ) ...Imperator Alrkdandr Pavlovitch
Stanislav SOKOLOV
(Станислав СОКОЛОВ)
Nikolay STOTSKY
(Николай СТОЦКИЙ) ...The left-hander
Yuri YAKOVLEV
(Юрий ЯКОВЛЕВ) ...Imperator Nikolay Pavlovitch
Cinematography :
Valery FEDOSOV
(Валерий ФЕДОСОВ)
Production design :
Natalia VASILYEVA
(Наталья ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Music :
Igor MATSYEVSKY
(Игорь МАЦИЕВСКИЙ)
Companies :
Lenfilm
Release Date in Russia :
17/11/1986
Plot synopsis
Based on Nikolai Leskov’s short story of the same title
A popular tale of a gifted gunsmith,
the Left-handed
is told in a manner imitating the style of Russian traditional popular print.