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

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 as Lena * Leonid Markov 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 '' Sol ...

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 K ...

as Tamara *

Viktor Shulgin 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), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

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 Igor Vladimirovich Starygin (Russian:''Игорь Владимирович Старыгин'', 13 June 1946 in Moscow – 8 November 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. An alumnus of the Russian Academy of Theatre Ar ...

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 The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental c ...

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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