''The Rumyantsev Case'' (russian: Дело Румянцева) is a 1955
Soviet crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Iosif Kheyfits
Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits ( be, Іосіф Яўхімавіч Хейфіц; – 24 April 1995) was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975). Member o ...
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Plot
Young truck-driver Sasha Rumyantsev, trying to avoid running over a child, has an
accident, 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 (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...
as Sasha Rumyantsev, truck-driver
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Ninel Podgornaya 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
Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (shortly The OBKhSS, russian: Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности, ОБХСС) was the Soviet financial police. I ...
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Gennadi Yukhtin
Gennadi (birth name Geniy) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (russian: Геннадий (Гений) Гаврилович Юхтин; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor.
Life and career
At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin wa ...
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 (russian: link=no, Евгений Павлович Леонов; 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 ...
as Mikhail Snegirev, truck-driver
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Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова; 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 Cine ...
as Nonna Snegireva, Mikhail Snegirev's wife
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Nikolay Kryuchkov
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.
Selected fi ...
as Korol'kov, chief of operations department
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Viktor Chekmaryov
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as Shmyglo, a repeat offender, the ringleader of a gang of plunderers
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Ants Eskola as Prus, director of the shop, plunderer
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Arkady Trusov
Arkady (russian: Арка́дий, Arkadiy) is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the Greek name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. The Latin equivalent is Arcadius. Notable people with the name include:
People:
*Ark ...
as Yakov Egorovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
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Ivan Selyanin
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as Vassily Stepanovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
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Lyudmila Golubeva
Ludmila, Ludmilla, or Lyudmila (Cyrillic: Людмила, ''Lyudmila'') may refer to:
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* Ludmila (given name) a Slavic female given name (including a list of people with the name)
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as Lyuba, the student, Claudia's friend
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Yevgeny Losakevich Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:
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as Zoya Pavlovna, Claudia's aunt
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Viktor Koval
Viktor Stanislavovich Koval (russian: Виктор Станиславович Коваль; 29 September 1947 – 1 February 2021) was a Russian-Soviet writer, poet, artist, and actor.
Biography
Koval was born into a family of servicemen. A ch ...
as Sasha, orphan, an adopted Paul Evdokimov
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«Дело Румянцева»Аннотированный каталог фильмов киностудии «Ленфильм» 1918—2003
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1956 films
1950s crime drama films
Soviet crime drama films
Russian crime drama films
1955 drama films
1955 films
1956 drama films
1950s Russian-language films
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