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Released
1988 · FILM

Zashchitnik Sedov

Directed by
Language
RU
Drama

Synopsis

Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women, whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage, beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks on a series of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to reconsider the case. However, the highest authorities are not so easily outmaneuvered, and Sedov becomes branded as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Eleonora PraksinaShot by Vladimir ShevtsikScored by Vadim KhrapachovDesigned by Evgeniy Chernyaev

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