Byla ne byla
Synopsis
High school student Vasily Serov, a troubled teenager equally capable of both good and bad deeds, falls in love with Irina Zvyagintseva, the daughter of the school principal. Friendship with Ira sharpens in him feelings of justice, nobility. One day Vasya accidentally gets into trouble. With his friend Lyokha he took away sneakers on the beach. Now the police are looking for him.
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Edited by Valentina KulaginaShot by Yuriy LyubshinScored by Igor KantyukovDesigned by Natalya Iyevleva
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19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Grigoriy Kataev
as Vasya Serov
Tina Laptyeva
as Ira Zvyagintseva
Aleksey Zharkov
as Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev
Valentina Telichkina
as Zoya Andreyevna
Larisa Belogurova
as Anna Pavlovna
Yuriy Duvanov
as Yuriy Nikolayevich Kolesnikov
Vladislav Korneyev
as Anton Shelest
Leonid Obolensky
as Vladimir Mikhaylovich
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Yuriy
Sergey Nikonenko
as Veniamin Veniaminovich
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