Lessons at the End of Spring
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
Danil Tolkachev
Vadik
Yuriy Nazarov
Vasilyok
Yurii Mazhuha
Lvovskiy
Aleksandr Feklistov
Teacher
Nikolay Zasukhin
Semenyuk
Leonid Timtsunik
Bald Man
Valeriy Nosik
Radiculitis Man
Yelena Korolyova
Mother
Evgeniy Lazarev
Romanyuk
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
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