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The First Courier

Mar 1, 1968 · 1h 31m
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Drama
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PLOT

The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.

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CAST

Stefan Danailov
Ivan Zagubanski
Zhanna Bolotova
Konkordiya Samoilova
Venelin Pekhlivanov
Georgy Bakalov
Vladimir Retsepter
Arseny Dokumyga
Evgeni Leonov
Kritski
Valentin Gaft
Nikolay Fon Getsberg
Nikolai Gubenko
Yasha Baronchik
Rita Gladunko
Margarita
Directed by Vladimir Yanchev

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Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
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Production
Mosfilm, Boyana Film
Country
SU
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