Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.
Direction
Two directors, one seamless nightmare of escalating dread.
Acting
Yuriy Tolubeev's sweaty desperation is physically uncomfortable to watch.
Director
Aleksandr Abramov
Viktor Tarasov
Павел Петрович Чижов
Yuriy Tolubeev
Антон Афанасьевич Пилипенко
Vladimir Ratomsky
Иван Ермолаевич Дроздов
Nikolai Sergeyev
Алексей Николаевич - адвокат
Vladimir Kashpur
Павел Паначук
Kseniya Minina
Галина Дроздова
Igor Gorbachyov
Иван Федорович - старший прокурор
Irina Zarubina
Дарья Степановна Ушакова
Geliy Sysoev
Михаил Александрович Кузнецов
Ivan Krasko
редактор районной газеты
Efim Kopelyan
Григорий Иванович - главный прокурор
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
секретарь райкома
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Khrushchev Thaw, when Soviet cinema briefly flirted with moral ambiguity before Brezhnev slammed the door.
The 'Moskvich' car crash was staged with a real vehicle; budget constraints meant only one take — the actors' genuine tension is partly real fear.
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