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The Son's Return

19771h 13mMovie

Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son.

Drama

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Cast

Lidiya Smirnova
Biken Rimova
Vitaliy Grishko
Konstantin Voinov
Yuri Gorobets
Evdokiya Germanova
Lyudmila Ivanova
Aleksandr Lebedev
Irina Murzayeva
Mikhail Vasilyev

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Director: Sharip Beisembayev
Writers: Valentin Chernykh
Release date: April 1, 1977
Runtime: 1h 13m
Original language: Russian
Studios: Kazakhfilm

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