Iosif KHEIFITS
Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ
Iossif KHEIFITS
USSR, 1955, 103mn 
Colour, fiction
The Rumyantsev case
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Дело Румянцева

 

 L'Affaire Roumiantsev

 Delo Rumyantseva

 
Directed by : Iosif KHEIFITS (Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ)
Writing credits : Yuri GUERMAN (Юрий ГЕРМАН), Iosif KHEIFITS (Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ)
 
Cast
Aleksey BATALOV (Алексей БАТАЛОВ) ...Roumiantsev
Nikolay KRIUCHKOV (Николай КРЮЧКОВ)
Vera KUZNETSOVA (Вера КУЗНЕЦОВА)
Yevgeni LEONOV (Евгений ЛЕОНОВ)
Sergey_2 LUKYANOV (Сергей_2 ЛУКЬЯНОВ)
Inna MAKAROVA (Инна МАКАРОВА)
Arkadi TRUSOV (Аркадий ТРУСОВ)
Gennadi YUKHTIN (Геннадий ЮХТИН)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail MAGID (Михаил МАГИД), Lev SOKOLSKY (Лев СОКОЛЬСКИЙ)
Production design : Isaac KAPLAN (Исаак КАПЛАН), Berta MANEVICH (Берта МАНЕВИЧ)
Music : Venedikt PUSHKOV (Венедикт ПУШКОВ)
Sound : Arnold SHARGORODSKY (Арнольд ШАРГОРОДСКИЙ)
Spectators : 31,8 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Prix de la lutte pour l’homme nouveau au Festival de Karlovy-Vary, 1956

Plot synopsis
The long distance trucker Sasha Rumyantsev unintentionally becomes an accomplice to a crime committed by the manager of his trucking company. The honest guy is accused of stealing a truckload of goods in scarce supply. Together, the employees of the trucking company rise to the defense of their friend, helping the investigator Colonel Afanasyev find and expose the real criminals.
The film was awarded the Prize for the Creation of a New Personality Image at the IX International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia (1956).
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les dix meilleurs films soviétiques des années 1950, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

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