Adventure · Soviet Union · 1964 · 1h 22m

The Mandate

Мандат

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Director
Nikolai Lebedev
Cast
Yuriy Bogolyubov as Gleb Prokhorov Nikolay Rozhdestvensky as Arkhip Oleg Letnikov as Vassyl Nikolay Kuzmin as Grizha Aleksandr Afanasev as Mikhail Vasilyev as Dubok
Crew
Anatoly Karpukhin — Director of Photography Yelena Mironova — Editor Vladimir Maklakov — Original Music Composer Arkadi Mlodik — Writer Aleksandr Vlasov — Writer Vladimir Besprozvanny — Producer
Synopsis

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...

Key Collaborators
Nikolai Lebedev Director Anatoly Karpukhin Director of Photography Yelena Mironova Editor Vladimir Maklakov Original Music Composer Arkadi Mlodik Writer Aleksandr Vlasov Writer Vladimir Besprozvanny Producer Viktor Savostin Production Design E. Yakovleva Costume Design
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