Before Dawn

Jan 1, 1989

1h 25m

★ 5.3

Overview

Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Before Dawn Trailers

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Cast

Lieutenant

Evgeny Mironov

Nikolai

Valeri Ryzhakov

Vaska

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy

Oleg Korchikov

Valentin Nevolin

Kostiantyn Stepankov

Old man

Vyacheslav Kirilichev

Raisa Ryazanova

Igor Varpa

Viktor Uralsky

Aleksandr Olkov

Efim's Wife

Vera Alkhovskaya

Vasily Rybin

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