The Mandate (1964)
1919. Gleb Prokhorov, a worker from St. Petersburg, is sent on a mission by the party to lead a small food supply detachment with a mandate signed by Lenin to a village to get bread for starving Petrograd. But in an unequal battle with the kulaks, the entire food supply detachment is killed, and the wounded Prokhorov passes the mandate on to his thirteen-year-old son, Glebka...
Director: Nikolai Lebedev
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Yuriy Bogolyubov as Gleb Prokhorov |
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Nikolay Rozhdestvensky as Arkhip |
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Oleg Letnikov as Vassyl |
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Nikolay Kuzmin as Grizha |
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Aleksandr Afanasev as |
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Mikhail Vasilyev as Dubok |
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Boris Shcherbakov as Glebka Prokhorov |
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Aleksei Smirnov as |
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Nikolai Kryukov as |
| Directing | Nikolai Lebedev | Director |
| Writing | Arkadi Mlodik | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Vlasov | Writer |
| Camera | Anatoly Karpukhin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Viktor Savostin | Production Design |
| Directing | Fyodor Barbukhatti | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Vladimir Maklakov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Anna Volokhova | Sound Director |
| Writing | Nikolay Gleyzarov | Lyricist |
| Camera | L. Aleksandrov | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Yakovleva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rita Kravchenko | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Boris Soloviev | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | Ilya Goldberg | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | A. Sidorov | VFX Supervisor |
| Editing | Mariya Amosova | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | G. Marasayeva | Second Assistant Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Zhuravin | Script Editor |
| Writing | M. Laskina | Script Editor |
| Writing | V. Virolainen | Script Consultant |
| Sound | Nikolay Rabinovich | Conductor |
| Production | Vladimir Besprozvanny | Producer |
| Editing | Yelena Mironova | Editor |
| Directing | Nikolai Stepanov | First Assistant Director |