Check-up on the roads / Проверка на дорогах

USSR
1971–1985, 97 MIN.

Director Alexey German
Scriptwriter Eduard Volodarsky
Camera Yakov Sklyansky
Design Valery Yurkevich
Music Gustav Mahler, Isaak Shvarts
Cast: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Zamansky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Oleg Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Anda Zaitse, Gennady Dudyaev, Nikolay Burlyaev, Victor Pavlov, Maya Bulgakova, Yuri Dubrovin, Igor Klass
Production Lenfilm Studio

War drama based on war prose of Yury German. The year 1942. A partisan division of Ivan Lokotkov, senior lieutenant, ex-village militioner, takes charge over one of northern-western regions of Russia, occupied by Nazi. The situation is critical: there are only burnt out villages and punishers. The division is lack of food and the commander decides to siege over the Nazi train with products but it’s too dangerous. A repentant betrayer and policemen Lazarev well-known among fascists is ready to get charge of this operation. But can Ivan trust him?

* Critics Award at the Rotterdam IFF (1987)
*USSR State Award (1988)

ALEXEI GERMAN
1938–2013
Born in Leningrad. In 1960 graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Film (class of G.Kozintsev). Since 1964 worked as a director at Lenfilm Studio. Founder and art director of the Studio of First Experimental Film in St. Petersburg. Was a professor at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow. Winner of state awards and prizes, prizewinner of prominent national and international film festivals. His filmography includes “The Seventh Companion” (1967, with G.Aronov), “Twenty Days without War” (1976), “My Friend Ivan Lapshin” (1984), “Khrustalyov, My Car!” (1998), “It's Hard to Be a God” (2013).

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