The Manuscript (1992)
The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
Director: Aleksandr Muratov
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Vladimir Ivashov as |
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Irina Brazgovka as |
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Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as |
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Aleksandr Kalyagin as |
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Zinoviy Gerdt as |
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Boris Klyuev as |
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Zoya Buryak as |
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Andrey Zaykov as |
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Khasan Bidzhiyev as |
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Margarita Shubina as |
| Directing | Aleksandr Muratov | Director |
| Writing | Jacques Baynac | Author |
| Writing | Lydia Chukovskaya | Writer |
| Camera | Vladimir Ilin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Mikhail Gerasimov | Production Design |
| Production | Oleg Konkov | Producer |
| Production | Guy Séligmann | Producer |