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The Stray White and the Speckled

The Stray White and the Speckled

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Drama

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In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

100 mins

Rating

5.1/10

Release Date

30 October 1986

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko

Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko

Ivan

Liubomiras Laucevicius

Liubomiras Laucevicius

Ivan's father

Sultan Banov

Sultan Banov

Vladimir Steklov

Vladimir Steklov

Tzigan

Ilya Ivanov

Ilya Ivanov

Zhus

Andrei Bitov

Andrei Bitov

Pepe

Boris Olekhnovich

Boris Olekhnovich

Aleksandr Bashirov

Aleksandr Bashirov

Chudik

Boris Ryakhovsky

Boris Ryakhovsky

Rakov

Anatoly Slivnikov

Anatoly Slivnikov

Colonel

Arkady Vysotsky

Arkady Vysotsky

Andrei Filozov

Andrei Filozov

Sergei Bodrov

Sergei Bodrov

Leonid Filatov

Leonid Filatov

(voice)

Ludmila Savelyeva

Ludmila Savelyeva

Sergey Garmash

Sergey Garmash

Talgat Temenov

Talgat Temenov

Rashid Nugmanov

Rashid Nugmanov

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