Sniper () is a 1931

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war drama film directed and written by Semyon Timoshenko.

Plot

The film begins during the First World War. A former metallurgist goes to France as part of the Russian Expeditionary Force and there he kills a German sniper. Examining the documents of the sniper, he learns that the dead man also worked at a metallurgical plant, as a result of which he comes to the idea of the need for solidarity between the workers. After the war, returning to his homeland - to Russia, where he is employed by a brigade leader at the depot at the railway border station. Suddenly a group of bandits attacked the station. Defending himself and the station, the protagonist destroys the leader of the gang, who turns out to be his former commander.

Cast

* Boris Shlikhting as The Captain *

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as The Soldier * Pyotr Kirillov as German Sniper *

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References

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* 1931 films 1931 war films 1930s war drama films 1930s Soviet films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet war drama films Russian war drama films Soviet World War I films Russian World War I films Soviet black-and-white films Russian-language war drama films {{WWI-drama-film-stub