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* SplashOfColour: The prologue and epilogue of this film are in colour.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin and Vasya Okoshkin.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin and Vasya Okoshkin.Okoshkin.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his friend Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen in their activities an anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not wish to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, mid-30s, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his friend Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen in their activities an anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not wish to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film made in late 70 - early 80's is B&W.
* DrivenToSuicide: Khanin. He fails it shooting by acident in the space after he cannot shoot in either his head or in his heart.
* DrivenToSuicide: Khanin. He fails it shooting by acident in the space after he cannot shoot in either his head or in his heart.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film film, made in the late 70 - 70s to early 80's 80s, is in B&W.
* DrivenToSuicide: Khanin. He fails it shooting byacident accident in the space after he cannot shoot in either his head or in his heart.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: In several scenes the csmera lingers on after th action is over.
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul however the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul however the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: In several scenes the csmera camera lingers on after th action is over.
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded asthe resul however a result. However, the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as
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* OnlyOneName: Khanin the writer is actually never mentioned by the name
* PutOnABus: Khanin in the middle of the film is put on a bus arranged within a truck. He later returns without much fuss.In the end he departs for good on a boat.
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* OnlyOneName: Khanin the writer is actually never mentioned by the name
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* PutOnABus: Khanin in the middle of the film is put on a bus arranged within a truck. He later returns without much fuss. In the end he departs for good on a boat.
* PutOnABus: Khanin in the middle of the film is put on a bus arranged within a truck. He later returns without much fuss. In the end he departs for good on a boat.
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* StylisticSuck: The new play sestaged in the provincial theatre is glorifying the communist rehabilitation of the criminals. The narrator point out that it is a weak adaptation.
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* StylisticSuck: The new play sestaged staged in the provincial theatre is glorifying the communist rehabilitation of the criminals. The narrator point points out that it is a weak adaptation.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his friind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen in their activities an anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his friind friend Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen in their activities an anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want wish to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1984 Soviet film by Alexei German. He based it on his fathers' recollections of his friendship with the criminal police chief.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1984 Soviet film by Alexei German. He based it on his fathers' father's recollections of his friendship with the criminal police chief.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of hisfreind friind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the in their activities an anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: The suspect interrogated by Lapshin confesses to only having lured a man into a room where he was killed by his accomplices.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film made in70-80's late 70 - early 80's is B&W.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film made in
* TheGulag: Invoked but not in the usual sense. People are sent to Gulag for violating the criminal law. The members of the criminal police department don't fight political dissidents, their clients are career criminals.
* ItsForABook:
** Khanin wants to be present at the police operation to pick up the material to include in his book.
** Also Adasheva who is preparing to play a hooker asks Lapshin to get her in touch with the one. Conveniently Lapshin has arrested a girl of the oldest profession.
* ItsForABook:
** Khanin wants to be present at the police operation to pick up the material to include in his book.
** Also Adasheva who is preparing to play a hooker asks Lapshin to get her in touch with the one. Conveniently Lapshin has arrested a girl of the oldest profession.
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* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul howwever the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
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* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul howwever however the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
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* TheGulag: Invoked but not in the usual sense. People are sent to Gulag for violating the criminal law. The members of the criminal police department don't fight political dissidents, their clients are career criminals.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer [played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer [played (played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin and
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin andand Vasya Okoshkin.
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1984 Soviet film by Alexei German. He based it on his fathers' recollections of his friendship with the criminal
police chief.
police chief.
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1984 Soviet film by Alexei German. He based it on his fathers' recollections of his friendship with the criminal
criminal police chief.
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* ColourSplash: The prologue and epilogue of this film are in colour.
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* SplashOfColour: The prologue and epilogue of this film are in colour.
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin is a 1984 Soviet film by Alexei German. He based it on his fathers' recollections of his friendship with the criminal
police chief.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer [played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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!! Tropes
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Lampshaded by Adasheva who says it to Lapshin.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: The bride of Okoshkin who is shown only briefly.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Invoked by Vasya Okoshkin. He leaves the communal flat to move with his wife. He also says that his future mother-in-law is very sympathetic with him. In the epilogue he returns and reports that it did not work out. For example they gave him three roubles and sent him to a store to buy a herring. Of course a criminal police officer wouldn't swallow it.
* ColourSplash: The prologue and epilogue of this film are in colour.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film made in 70-80's is B&W.
* DrivenToSuicide: Khanin. He fails it shooting by acident in the space after he cannot shoot in either his head or in his heart.
* FramingDevice: The narrator is the son of Zanadvorov, who lives with his father in the same communal flat as Lapshin and the visiting Khanin. He is shown only in the prologue and also speaks in the epilogue.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: In several scenes the csmera lingers on after th action is over.
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul howwever the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
* LoveTriangle: For Ivan Lapshin, Khanin and Natalya Adashina. Natalya loves Khanin while Lapshin
* MostWritersAreWriters: Khanin is a writer.
* OnlyOneName: Khanin the writer is actually never mentioned by the name
* PutOnABus: Khanin in the middle of the film is put on a bus arranged within a truck. He later returns without much fuss.In the end he departs for good on a boat.
* ShownTheirWork: Alexei German as always made a thorough research of the era when the film is set (1936). The interiors are carefully reconstructed and the props are authentic.
* StylisticSuck: The new play sestaged in the provincial theatre is glorifying the communist rehabilitation of the criminals. The narrator point out that it is a weak adaptation.
* TheGulag: Invoked but not in the usual sense. People are sent to Gulag for violating the criminal law. The members of the criminal police department don't fight political dissidents, their clients are career criminals.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin and
police chief.
It is a story set in a provincial Russian city Uchansk of the mid-30's, pre-Great Purge of 1937-38. Several officers of the criminal police including the titular Lapshin live in a small communal flat. A writer [played by Andrei Mironov) arrives in the city and settles in the flat of his freind Ivan Lapshin. He wishes to participate with the policemen to the anticriminal operation but Lapshin is hesitant as he does not want to endanger his friend who is also an acclaimed writer.
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!! Tropes
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Lampshaded by Adasheva who says it to Lapshin.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: The bride of Okoshkin who is shown only briefly.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Invoked by Vasya Okoshkin. He leaves the communal flat to move with his wife. He also says that his future mother-in-law is very sympathetic with him. In the epilogue he returns and reports that it did not work out. For example they gave him three roubles and sent him to a store to buy a herring. Of course a criminal police officer wouldn't swallow it.
* ColourSplash: The prologue and epilogue of this film are in colour.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: This film made in 70-80's is B&W.
* DrivenToSuicide: Khanin. He fails it shooting by acident in the space after he cannot shoot in either his head or in his heart.
* FramingDevice: The narrator is the son of Zanadvorov, who lives with his father in the same communal flat as Lapshin and the visiting Khanin. He is shown only in the prologue and also speaks in the epilogue.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: In several scenes the csmera lingers on after th action is over.
* LeeroyJenkins: Khanin acts according to this trope during the climactic operation aganst the Soloviev gang. [[spoiler: He is badly wounded as the resul howwever the gang leader Soloviev himself is captured.]]
* LoveTriangle: For Ivan Lapshin, Khanin and Natalya Adashina. Natalya loves Khanin while Lapshin
* MostWritersAreWriters: Khanin is a writer.
* OnlyOneName: Khanin the writer is actually never mentioned by the name
* PutOnABus: Khanin in the middle of the film is put on a bus arranged within a truck. He later returns without much fuss.In the end he departs for good on a boat.
* ShownTheirWork: Alexei German as always made a thorough research of the era when the film is set (1936). The interiors are carefully reconstructed and the props are authentic.
* StylisticSuck: The new play sestaged in the provincial theatre is glorifying the communist rehabilitation of the criminals. The narrator point out that it is a weak adaptation.
* TheGulag: Invoked but not in the usual sense. People are sent to Gulag for violating the criminal law. The members of the criminal police department don't fight political dissidents, their clients are career criminals.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ivan Lapshin and
