''Do not Shoot at White Swans'' (russian: Не стреляйте в белых лебедей, Ne strelyayte v belykh lebedey) is a 1980 Soviet
drama film
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in two parts by the director
Rodion Nakhapetov
Rodion Rafailovich Nakhapetov (Russian: Родион Рафаилович Нахапетов; born 1944) is a Soviet-American-Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He received the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Asteroid 256697&nb ...
, based on the novel of the same name by
Boris Vasilyev.
Plot
Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) lives in a village. The villagers, including his wife, nickname him as the "Harbinger of Woes" - for all for what he undertakes, any work or business ends in disaster.
Egor is quite different from the villagers, he is practical and sensible. Polushkin is endowed with the talent of a true artist, with his own outlook on life. After a long search, Polushkin finally finds his calling - he gets a job as a gamekeeper. White swans become Yegor's only friends, of which he takes care of with utmost tenderness. But one day his luck ends: to the forest come poachers who without hesitation kill the tame swans.
Cast
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Stanislav Lyubshin
Stanislav Andreyevich Lyubshin (russian: link=no, Станислав Андреевич Любшин; born 6 April 1933) is a Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
Life
Stanislav Lyubshin is a Russian actor whose ...
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Nina Ruslanova
Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (russian: Нина Ивановна Русланова; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).[Vladimir Zamansky
Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky (russian: Владимир Петрович Заманский; born 6 February 1926) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).
Biography
As a boy, Zamansky grew up without a fat ...]
* Viktor Anisimov
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Vera Glagoleva
Vera Vitalievna Glagoleva (russian: Вера Витальевна Глаголева; 31 January 1956 – 16 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian actress and film director.
Glagoleva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1956. ...
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Ivars Kalnins
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Given name
*Ivars Godmanis (born 1951), Latvian politician
*Ivars Hirss (1931–1989), Latvian-born American painter
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* Ivan Agafonov
* Yevgeni Nikitchenko
* Nastasya Gladkova
* Grigori Shpigel
* Anatoli Vedenkin
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Lyubov Sokolova
* Konstantin Grigoryev
External links
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1980 films
Soviet drama films
Mosfilm films
Films based on works by Boris Vasilyev
1980 drama films
Films about swans
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