"Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well."
Andrei Boltnev
as Ivan Lapshin
Nina Ruslanova
as Natasha Adasova
Andrey Mironov
as Khanin
Aleksei Zharkov
as Okoshkin
Aleksandr Filippenko
as Zanadvorov
Yuriy Kuznetsov
as Superintendent
Semyon Farada
as Джатиев
Nina Usatova
as
Valeriy Filonov
as Pobuzhinskiy
Zinaida Adamovich
as Patrikeyevna
Anatoly Slivnikov
as Bychkov
Andrey Dudarenko
as Kashin
Valeri Kuzin
as Narrator (voice)
Sergey Kushakov
Yuri Aroyan
Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Lidiya Volkova
Natalya Laburtseva
Vladimir Tochilin
Boris Voytsekhovskiy
Svetlana Kireeva
Larisa Solovyova
Anna Nikolayeva
Yuriy Pomogaev
as Solovyov
Yu. Rotin
Set Decoration
Nikolai Astakhov
Sound
Anatoliy Rodionov
Camera Operator
O. Telova
Makeup Artist
Yuri Pugach
Production Design
Gennadi Savelyev
Aleksei German
Director
Viktor Izvekov
Producer
Valeri Fedosov
Director of Photography
Writer
Valentina Goroschnikova
Galina Deyeva
Costume Design
Arkadiy Gagulashvili
Music
Leda Semyonova
Editor
Eduard Volodarskiy
Screenplay
Yuri German
Novel
Viktor Aristov
Second Unit Director