Two Comrades Were Serving (1968)
Sluzhili dva tovarishcha
99 min
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
- Release date
- October 21, 1968
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Oleg Yankovskiy as Andrey Nekrasov
- Rolan Bykov as Ivan Karyakin
- Anatoliy Papanov as Komandir polka
- Vladimir Vysotskiy as Aleksandr Brusentsov
- Iya Savvina as Sasha
- Alla Demidova as Komissar
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Komandir vzvoda
- Nikolay Burlyaev as Sergey Lukashevich
- Nikolay Parfyonov as Belogvardeyskiy ofitser
- Roman Tkachuk as Belogvardeyskiy ofitser
- Valentina Berezutskaya as Khozyayka utonuvshego vedra
- Venyamin Smekhov as baron Krause
- Yuriy Kuzmenkov
- Valentin Golubenko as (uncredited)
- Valentina Sperantova as (uncredited)
- Pyotr Krylov as Nachalnik shtaba
- Rostislav Yankovskiy as polkovnik Vasilchikov
- Nikolai Dupak as Army commander
- B. Silantyev as Kombrig
Crew
- Yevgeni Karelov · Director
- Yuli Dunsky · Writer
- Valeri Frid · Writer
- Evgeniy Ptichkin · Composer
- Mikhail Ardabyevsky · Cinematographer
- Viktor Belokopytov · Cinematographer
- M. Renkova · Editor
- Lev Semyonov · Production designer
- Boris Tsaryov · Production designer