The Last Day (1972 film)

The Last Day (Russian: Самый последний день, romanizedSamy posledny den) is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Ulyanov. The screen version of the play of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.[1]

The Last Day
Directed byMikhail Ulyanov
Written byBoris Vasilyev
Mikhail Ulyanov
Produced byYu. Galkovsky
StarringOleg Tabakov
CinematographyElizbar Karavayev
Edited byTamara Zubrova
Music byIsaac Schwartz
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Release date
  • 12 February 1973 (1973-02-12)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian

Plot

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On his last working day, the outgoing district plenipotentiary, junior police lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalyov, as usual, bypasses the site and solves the accumulated problems. Among the usual cases, parsing and talking with drunkards, he finds time for the neighbor girl Alla, who fell under the influence of the leader of the thieves' gang. Seeing her in the company of a young man, similar in description to a certain Valera, suspected of theft, he tries to detain him, but he is killed by a lethal blow.

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Other screen versions

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In 1972, the director Boris Ravenskikh staged a play by Vasilyev at the Maly Theatre. In 1973 the performance was recorded for television.[2]

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