''The Rumyantsev Case'' () is a 1955
Soviet
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crime drama film
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directed by
Iosif Kheyfits.
Plot
Young truck-driver Sasha Rumyantsev, trying to avoid running over a child, has an
accident
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, his car crashes into a brick wall. Rumyantsev receives minor injuries, but his occasional passenger, a girl named Klavdya, is injured more seriously. Rumyantsev faces prosecution, but the investigator finds out the real reason of the accident and finds Rumyatsev innocent.
Sasha and Klavdya fall in love with each other, they are ready for living together and plan a wedding, but Rumyantsev falls into trouble again ... Rumyantsev's chief Korol'kov, scoundrel and drunkard, draws Sasha into his illegal enterprise. Because of Korol'kov, Rumyantsev becomes an accomplice in theft: he carries stolen goods in his truck. Rumyantsev is arrested, the police captain who investigates the case is unconditionally sure that the driver is guilty. However, the experienced сolonel Afanasyev believes Rumyantsev and exposes the real criminals.
Production
* Production design by Isaak Kaplan, Berta Manevich
* Set decoration by Yu. Freydlin
* Makeup department by V. Sokolov
Cast
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Aleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (20 November 192815 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist ...
as Sasha Rumyantsev, truck-driver
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Ninel Podgornaya
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*Ninel Aladova (born 1934), Belarusian archite ...
as Klavdya Naumenko, the student, Rumyantsev's bride
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Sergey Lukyanov as Sergey I. Afanasyev, police colonel
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Pyotr Lobanov as Samokhin, a police captain, inspector of
OBKhSS
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Gennadi Yukhtin
Gennadi (birth name Geniy) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor.
Life and career
At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin was orphaned: his mother died at the front during the Second World War i ...
as Paul Evdokimov, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's friend
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Vladimir Lepko as Vasily Lemekhov, truck-driver
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Yevgeny Leonov
Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as '' Gentlemen of Fortune'', '' Mimino'' and '' Striped Trip''. Called "one ...
as Mikhail Snegirev, truck-driver
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Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the Nati ...
as Nonna Snegireva, Mikhail Snegirev's wife
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Nikolay Kryuchkov
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.
Selected filmography
* '' Outskirts'' (1933)
* '' By the Bluest of Seas'' (1936)
* '' The R ...
as Korol'kov, chief of operations department
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Viktor Chekmaryov
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to:
* Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname
Arts and entertainment
Film
* Victor (1951 film), ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film
* Victor (1993 film), ...
as Shmyglo, a repeat offender, the ringleader of a gang of plunderers
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Ants Eskola
Ants Eskola (17 February 190814 December 1989, known until 1935 as Erhard-Voldemar Esperk)Eskola 1986: 7 was a Soviet and Estonian actor, singer and artist. He appeared in 25 films from 1930 to 1979. People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist ...
as Prus, director of the shop, plunderer
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Arkady Trusov as Yakov Egorovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
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Ivan Selyanin as Vassily Stepanovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
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Lyudmila Golubeva as Lyuba, the student, Claudia's friend
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Yevgeny Losakevich as Zoya Pavlovna, Claudia's aunt
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Viktor Koval as Sasha, orphan, an adopted Paul Evdokimov
References
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«Дело Румянцева»Аннотированный каталог фильмов киностудии «Ленфильм» 1918—2003
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1955 crime drama films
1950s mystery drama films
Soviet crime drama films
Russian-language crime drama films
1955 films
1950s Soviet films
1950s Russian-language films
Films about automobiles
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