The Favorite (russian: Фаворит, Favorit) is a two-part film based on the 1962 detective novel of British writer
Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England.
After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
, ''
Dead Cert''. For the first time the
Soviet Central Television
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was demonstrated on 13 and 14 September 1977.
Plot
After the death of Bill Davidson at the races, his friend the jockey Alan York (Arnis Licitis) learns that this was not an accident. Attempts to establish a murder client lead him to the disclosure of a whole criminal group, headed by a person close to him.
He gradually penetrates deep into intrigue, connected not only with the jumps on which Bill died, but also with a local gang of taxi drivers. Not only love and the desire for the hostess of the new racehorse, Kate, which Alan must ride, but also the debt to Bill's wife, forces him to ask the same questions over and over again.
Cast
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Arnis Līcītis as Alan York
* Ints Burans as Colonel William Davidson
*Ion Ungureanu as Inspector Lodge
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Romualdas Ramanauskas
Romualdas Ramanauskas (born 4 February 1950, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian film and theater actor.
Biography
In 1972 he graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatoire. He worked for 20 years as an actor at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. In 1992 ...
as Dan Hillman
*Mara Zwaigzne as Cat
*Gediminas Karka as Uncle George Edgar Penn
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Elza Radziņa
Elza Radziņa (1917, Kharkiv, Russian Empire — 2005, Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet Latvian theater and cinema actress, and a master of the spoken word (reader). She received People's Artist of the USSR award in 1976 and the Order of the Three Sta ...
as Auntie Debb Penn
*Jonas Vaitecaitis as Sandy Mason
* Vadim Vilsky as Tomkins
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Afanasi Trishkin
Afanasi Petrovich Trishkin (russian: link=no, Афанасий Петрович Тришкин; born June 4, 1934, village Pesochnoye, Kaluga Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He is an Honored Artist of Russia ...
as bandit
Soundtrack
The film actively uses the music of
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...
from the album
Imagine
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* Imagination
Music Albums
* ''Imagine'' (Armin van Buuren album), 2008
* ''Imagine'' (Eva Cassidy album), 2002
* ''Imagine'' (Janice Vidal album), 2012
* ''Imagine'' (John Lennon album), 1971
** ''Imagine: John Lennon' ...
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Фаворит / Favoritul (1977) — Информация о фильме
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References
External links
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Soviet crime drama films
1976 films
Soviet horse racing films
1970s crime drama films
Soviet television films
Films based on British novels
1976 drama films
1970s Soviet films
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