Fox Hunting () is a 1980 Soviet

crime drama Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Vadim Abdrashitov Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (, ; 19 January 1945 – 12 February 2023) was a Russian film director. He was internationally renowned as one of Russian cinema's most notable independent director (film), directors, with awards from the Berlin Inte ...

Plot

Two youngsters mug a worker and are justly punished: one receives a suspended sentence, and the other goes to serve in the colony. But the victim is haunted by thoughts regarding the fate of these teenagers. He begins to regularly meet with the prisoners in the hope of getting to reach their hearts. The protagonist of this drama is an enthusiast of the nowadays rare type of

radiosport Radiosport (or radio sport) is formal competition among amateur radio operators in any of three amateur radio activities: ARDF, DXing, and contesting. The Friendship Radiosport Games is an international multi-sport event that includes all t ...

of the same name,

fox hunting Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "master of foxhounds" (or "master of hounds" ...

Cast

Vladimir Gostyukhin Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (, , born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor. Selected filmography Actor * 1977: ''The Ascent'' as Rybak * 1980: '' The White Crow'' * 1980: ''Fox Hunting'' as Belov * 198 ...

as Viktor Belov * Irina Muravyova as Marina Belova * Igor Nefyodov as Vladimir Belikov *

Dmitry Kharatyan Dmitry Vadimovich Kharatyan (born 21 January 1960) is a Soviet and Russian actor of Armenian descent, People's Artist of Russia. Was born in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR on 21 January 1960. His debut as an actor came in Vladimir Menshov's ''Practical J ...

as Kostya Stryzhak * Alla Pokrovskaya as Olga Sergeyevna, Stryzhak's mother * Andrey Turkov as Valerik, Belov's son * Mikhail Bocharov as Viktor Semenovich, chairman of the factory committee * Margarita Zharova as Judge * Antonina Konchakova as Belikov's mother *

Nikolay Smorchkov Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov (; 9 August 1930 – 7 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. Biography Nikolay Smorchkov was born on 9 August 1930 in the village of Ivankovo, Gavrilovo-Posadsky District, in a large peasant family na ...

as policeman

Awards

* San Remo Film Festival — Best Director (

), Best Actor (

) Fox Hunting
at the kino-teatr.ru

References

External links

* 1980 films 1980s Soviet films 1980s Russian-language films Films directed by Vadim Abdrashitov Soviet crime drama films Russian-language crime drama films Mosfilm films 1980 crime drama films Films scored by Eduard Artemyev {{1980s-crime-drama-film-stub