''Day of Wrath'' (russian: День гнева, Den gneva) is a 1985 Soviet

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directed by Sulambek Mamilov.

Plot

Journalist Betli (

Juozas Budraitis Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film ''Wounded Game'', which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis ...

) is investigating a mysterious zone in which people become lost and strange events occur. He is met by the forester Meller (

Aleksei Petrenko Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama ''Agony' ...

), who tells that in the forest there used to be a laboratory in which the scientist-geneticist Fiedler (Anatoly Ivanov) conducted experiments. As a result of genetic experiments, Fiedler created a new race of bear-like creatures, but with human intellect and called them otarks. But unlike people, otarks have no emotions or universal morals. They catch people and carry out their own experiments on them which leads to the inhabitants of the villages surrounding the forest being afraid of them. The forester catches and kills the otarks, but in the end both him and Betli are killed. Betli has time to record the whole story on camera, heard from otarks and from Meller, and calls the scientist to trial. After the death of the journalist, the villagers arm themselves and destroy the otarks, hereby causing the Day of Wrath.

Cast

— journalist Betli *

— forester Meller *Anatoly Ivanov — Fiedler *

Vladimir Ivashov Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (russian: Влади́мир Серге́евич Ивашо́в; 28 August 1939 — 23 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Biography He had a film career that spanned over 30 years. He is best known for hi ...

— Caste *Evgeni Dvorzhetsky — unkempt man *Pavel Makhotin — chairman of the commission *

Paul Butkevich Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

— member of the government commission *

Svetlana Svetlichnaya Svetlana Afanasyevna Svetlichnaya (russian: link=no, Светлана Афанасьевна Светличная; born 15 May 1940) is a Soviet and Russian actress most famous for her role in ''The Diamond Arm'' (1968). Biography She was born i ...

— a woman from ruins *Grazhyna Baikshtite — Betli's wife *Konstantin Zakharchenko — Stenglik *Marina Fominova — Stenglik's wife *Mariana Polteva — Tina

References

External links

* Soviet science fiction horror films 1980s science fiction horror films Gorky Film Studio films 1985 films 1980s Russian-language films {{1980s-USSR-film-stub