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Category: Drama
The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1991-01-01
Run time: 151 minute / 2:31
Director: Ilya Gurin
Writers: Ilya Gurin, Vatslav Mikhalsky.
Production Company : Gorky Film Studios
Production Country: Soviet Union

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Directing
Ilya Gurin Director

Writing
Ilya Gurin Screenplay
Vatslav Mikhalsky Screenplay
Vatslav Mikhalsky Novel

Sound
Yuri Butsko Music

Camera
Evgeniy Davydov Director of Photography
Igor Klebanov Director of Photography

Editing
Rimma Tsegelnitskaya Editor
Nina Buzeyeva Assistant Editor
Valentina Kharlashova Assistant Editor
Vladimir Rossikhin Color Timer
Nadezhda Ryabova Assistant Editor
T. Smagina Assistant Editor

Art
Boris Kuzovkin Production Design
Boris Duksht Set Decoration

Costume & Make-Up
Emma Malaya Costume Design
Vera Artyomova-Shavrey Makeup Artist
S. Pyaskovskaya Assistant Makeup Artist
Marianna Ter-Arakelyan Assistant Makeup Artist

Art
S. Bakonina Art Department Assistant
Valentina Gvozdeva Property Master
Nina Kiselyova Set Designer
A. Meltsayeva Art Department Assistant
R. Meltseva Property Master
Tatyana Zotova Set Designer

Sound
Arif Aliev Sound Engineer
R. Melnichuk Boom Operator

Crew
A. Grachikov Pyrotechnician
Aleksandr Malyshev Stunts

Camera
Galina Bodrova Camera Operator
Sergei Bunin Assistant Camera
Leonid Kazakov Camera Operator

Lighting
A. Konyshin Chief Lighting Technician

Camera
Viktor Kulikov Camera Operator
D. Zotov Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up
Nataliya Ivakina Assistant Costume Designer

Sound
Sergei Skripka Conductor
Natalya Stroeva Music Editor

Writing
Vsevolod Yegorov Story Editor

Visual Effects
Aleksandr Ertel Visual Effects Camera

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