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Dead Man's Letters

Dead Man's Letters

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

Part of The Apocalypse Trilogy

1986•1h 23m•6.8/10
DramaScience Fiction

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6.8/10(124)

In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.

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Production

Lenfilm, Pervoe Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie

Language

RU

Status

Released

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Cast

Rolan Bykov

Rolan Bykov

Professor

Iosif Ryklin

Iosif Ryklin

Humanist

Aleksandr Sabinin

Nora Gryakalova

Nora Gryakalova

Vadim Lobanov

Vadim Lobanov

Viktor Mikhaylov

Viktor Mikhaylov

Vera Mayorova

Vera Mayorova

Anna

Svetlana Smirnova

Svetlana Smirnova

Tereza

Natalya Vlasova

Natalya Vlasova

Vatslav Dvorzhetsky

Vatslav Dvorzhetsky

Pastor

Vyacheslav Vasilyev

Dosimetrist

Evgeniy Platokhin

Evgeniy Platokhin

Vrach

Mikhail Shteyn

Gennady Makoev

Gennady Makoev

Svetlana Kireeva

Svetlana Kireeva

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