Encounters
The television film is based on three short stories: ‘A Meeting’ by Valentin Rasputin, ‘The Cool Sun of Autumn’ by Yuri Trifonov, and ‘Rags’ by S. Nikitin.
The television film is based on three short stories: ‘A Meeting’ by Valentin Rasputin, ‘The Cool Sun of Autumn’ by Yuri Trifonov, and ‘Rags’ by S. Nikitin.
Kirill Lavrov
Larisa Malevannaya
Andrei Tolubeyev
Arkadiy Volgin
The television film is based on three short stories: ‘A Meeting’ by Valentin Rasputin, ‘The Cool Sun of Autumn’ by Yuri Trifonov, and ‘Rags’ by S. Nikitin.
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