The First Courier (1968)
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
Director: Vladimir Yanchev
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Stefan Danailov as Ivan Zagubanski |
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Zhanna Bolotova as Konkordiya Samoilova |
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Venelin Pekhlivanov as Georgy Bakalov |
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Vladimir Retsepter as Arseny Dokumyga |
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Evgeni Leonov as Kritski |
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Valentin Gaft as Nikolay Fon Getsberg |
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Nikolai Gubenko as Yasha Baronchik |
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Rita Gladunko as Margarita |
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Sergey Borisov as Docker |
| Sound | Peter Stupel | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Anatoliy Kuznetsov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Vladimir Yanchev | Director |
| Writing | Konstantin Isaev | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Kruchinina | Costume Design |
| Directing | Vladimir Seleznyov | Co-Director |