Snake Catcher (russian: Змеелов, Zmeelov) is a 1985 Soviet drama film directed by

Vadim Derbenyov Vadim ( Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene masculine given name derived either from the Persian ''badian'' (anise or aniseed), or from the Ruthenian word ''volod'' (russian: волод), meaning ''to rule'' or ''vadit ...

Plot

The film tells about the former director of a large Moscow deli who ended up in a strict regime colony, and after leaving this began to fight criminals.

Cast

* Aleksandr Mikhaylov as Pavel Sergeevich Shorokhov *

Natalya Belokhvostikova Natalya Nikolayevna Belokhvostikova (russian: Ната́лья Никола́евна Белохво́стикова, July 28, 1951 in Moscow, USSR) is a retired Soviet and Russian actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 19 ...

as Lena *

Leonid Markov Leonid Vasilyevich Markov (russian: Леонид Васильевич Марков; 13 December 1927 – 1 March 1991) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Biography Markov was born in the villa ...

as Pyotr Vasilievich Kotov *

Donatas Banionis Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's '' So ...

as Boris *

Lyubov Polishchuk Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk (russian: Любо́вь Григо́рьевна Полищу́к; 21 May 1949 – 28 November 2006) was a popular Russian actress. She was born in the Siberian city of Omsk. After school she decided to become an ...

as Vera * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Zina *

Leonid Kuravlyov Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov (russian: Леонид Вячеславович Куравлёв; 8 October 1936 – 30 January 2022) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. Early life Kuravlyov w ...

as Konstantin *

Galina Polskikh Galina Polskikh (Гали́на Алекса́ндровна По́льских, born 27 November 1939) is a Soviet film actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films since 1962. In 1979 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia, ...

as Nina *

Valentina Titova Valentina Antipovna Titova (russian: Валентина Антиповна Титова; February 6, 1942 in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast SSSR) is a Russian actress. Biography Valentina Antipovna Titova was born on 6 February 1942 in the city of ...

as Tamara * Viktor Shulgin as Anatoly Semyonovich *

Alexander Pyatkov Alexander Alexandrovich Pyatkov (russian: Александр Александрович Пятков; born July 31, 1950, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. In 2006 he was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. Selecte ...

as Stasik * Igor Starygin as Boris's the guarantor

Awards

Soviet Screen ''Soviet Screen'' (russian: link=no, Советский Экран, Sovetsky Ekran) was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR with varying frequency from 1925 to 1998 (with a break from 1941–1957Fifty years from the date of the first iss ...

Award for Best Actor Year ( Aleksandr Mikhaylov)

Critical response

Film critic Alexander Fedorov notes in his review:

In phantasmagoric black-and-white dreams, ingeniously filmed by cinematographer Mikhail Agranovich, one can catch echoes of the director's former poetic metaphors, but otherwise Vadim Derbenev tries to keep within the framework of the traditional genre of crime drama. Tries... But comes out superficial and boring.

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