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The Seventh Companion(1967)
Status: Released
Date: 1967-11-26
59%
13 Votes
Time: 1h 29m
Overview:
A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up back where he started.
Languages: Russian.
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Soviet Union
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Movie: The Seventh Companion
Top 10 Billed Cast
Andrei Popov
Maj. Gen. Adamov
Pyotr Chernov
Zykov
Владимир Осенев
Priklonski
Sofiya Giatsintova
General's wife
Алексей Баталов
Commissar
Георгий Юматов
Владимир Муравьев
Turka
Александр Анисимов
Kukhtin
Vladimir Erenberg
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Overview
A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up back where he started.
Release Date
1967-11-26
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5.9
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