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Why?

19912h 31mMovie

The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.

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Cast

Ivan LapikovAleksei
Galina OrlovaLiza
Boris NevzorovNikolai Artyomovich
Ada RohovtsevaTatyana Sergeyevna
Lyusyena OvchinnikovaMariya
Vadim LyubshinAlyosha
Elena DrobyshevaGulya
Igor BochkinPavel
Gennadi FrolovNikolai Afanasevich
Valeri NadejkoMitka
Tatyana BojtovaYoung Mariya
Sergey ChekanYoung Aleksei
Arseni SusekovFedya
Fyodor ValikovSidor Ivanovich

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Director: Ilya Gurin
Writers: Ilya Gurin, Vatslav Mikhalsky, Vsevolod Yegorov
Release date: January 1, 1991
Runtime: 2h 31m
Original language: Russian
Studios: Gorky Film Studios

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