Mar 26, 1972
97 min
Full-HD

The Man from the Other Side (1972)

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.

Category

History Adventure

Country

Soviet Union Sweden

Companies

Omega Film Gorky Film Studios

Bibi Andersson

Britt Stagnelius

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Viktor Krymov

Patrick Wymark

Christian Holm

Valentin Gaft

Andrey Izvolskiy

Igor Yasulovich

Mikhail Zabotin

Holger Löwenadler

Axberg

Gunnel Broström

Ingrid Holm

Per-Axel Arosenius

Dr. Gunnar Hemlin

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