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Before Dawn (1989) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1989 · 85 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Yaropolk Lapshin
- Starring
- Evgeny Mironov, Aleksey Shemes, Raisa Ryazanova, Igor Golovin, Valery Rybin, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Set in the summer of 1941 during the war, a train transporting prisoners comes under enemy fire and crashes. Only three survive: a young NKVD lieutenant and two detainees—a thief and a Communist Party member who has been repressed. The trio must endure the hostile landscape together.
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