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Tracker (1987 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tracker' is a Soviet feature film, a drama directed by Roman Balayan.[http://www.day.kiev.ua/274773/ : ] The film was shot in 1987 in Kaluga.[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/7551/annot/ ]
Plot
It's 1916, World War I, the premonition of the revolution. Vorobyov, a gymnasium teacher, retires from service in protest at the dismissal of revolutionary-minded teachers, although he does not share their views. He remains without means of subsistence there is nothing to pay for a rented apartment, he has a sick child who needs to be treated in the Crimea. Vorobyov is looking for work, even the worst, just to pay money.
The gendarmerie offers him to become a filer (spy, secret observer), cooperate with them and report all the unreliable people. Vorobyov faces a monstrous choice or become a snitch, or remain an honest man without a livelihood. The impossibility of going out makes him commit suicide.
Cast
* Oleg Yankovsky as Pyotr Vorobyov
* Yelena Safonova as Nastya, Vorobyov's wife
* Aleksandr Vokach as Head of the Gendarme Department
* Oleksiy Gorbunov as Lavrentiev, gendarme lieutenant
* Aleksandr Zbruyev as Yakov Pyatkin
*Olga Ostroumova as Nina
* Filipp Yankovsky as episode
* Aleksandr Abdulov as Vanya
* Bohdan Beniuk as Janitor
* Igor Gnevashev as episode
Awards
*1988 Prize to Oleg Yankovsky for the best performance of the male role at the Seminci (Spain)[http://sovkinofilm.ru/besplatnye-sovetskie-filmy-smotret-onlajn/sovetskie-filmy-80-godov/filer.html ]
References
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