Property of the Republic
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Directed by | Vladimir Bychkov |
Written by | Isai Kuznetsov Avenir Zac |
Produced by | Mark Ruzhansky Yefim Lebedinsky |
Starring | Oleg Tabakov Andrei Mironov Vitya Galkin |
Cinematography | Alexander Filatov Yuri Malinovsky Benzion Monastyrskiy |
Music by | Yevgeny Krylatov |
Production company | |
Release date | 1971[1] |
Running time | 138 min |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Box office | 47,1 tickets sold |
Property of the Republic (Russian: Достоя́ние респу́блики, romanized: Dostoyanie respubliki) is a 1971 Soviet two-part adventure film directed by Vladimir Bychkov. Detective story takes place during the Civil War in Russia. The picture was the 44th most attended domestic film in the Soviet Union.[3]
Plot
Spring 1918.[4] Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of the former court fencing teacher Shilovsky and homeless boy Keshka, steals from abandoned mansion collection of paintings and sculptures. Hoping across the border, criminals roam the circus troupe, and they are being tailed by an employee of Criminal Investigation Makar Ovchinnikov.
Cast
- Oleg Tabakov as Makar Ovchinnikov
- Andrei Mironov as Shilovsky aka Marquis
- Vitya Galkin as homeless Keshka[5]
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Carl Genrikhovich Vitol
- Spartak Mishulin as Ilya Tarakanov
- Mikhail Ekaterininskiy as Director of the Museum
- Olga Zhiznyeva as Duchess Tikhvinskaya[6]
- Yuri Tolubeyev as criminologist Prokofy Filippovich Dobrovo
- Igor Kvasha as Ataman Lagutin
- Vladimir Grammatikov as magician
- Rogvold Sukhoverko as Commissioner Kochet
- Georgy Millyar as old railroad
- Arkady Tolbuzin as director
Release
Vladimir Bychkov's film watched 47.1 million viewers, which is 67 results in the history of Soviet film distribution.[7]
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