The Rumyantsev Case

The Rumyantsev Case
Directed by	Iosif Kheifits
Written by	Yuri German Iosif Kheifits
Starring	Aleksey Batalov Ninel Podgornaya Sergei Lukyanov Nikolai Kryuchkov
Music by	Benedict Pushkov
Cinematography	Leo Sokolsky Moses Magid
Production company	Lenfilm
Release dates	8 March 1956
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Rumyantsev Case^[1] (Russian: Дело Румянцева^[2], translit. Delo Rumyanceva) is a 1956 Soviet crime film directed by Iosif Kheifits.

Plot

Young truck-driver Sasha Rumyantsev, trying to avoid running over a child, has an accident, his car crashes into a brick wall. Rumyantsev receives minor injuries, but his occasional passenger, girl named Claudia, is injured more seriously. Rumyantsev faces prosecution, but the investigator finds out the real reason of the accident and finds Rumyatsev innocent.

Sasha and Claudia fall in love with each other, they are ready for living together and plan a wedding, but Rumyantsev falls into trouble again ... Rumyantsev's chief Korol'kov, scoundrel and drunkard, draws Sasha into his illegal enterprise. Because of Korol'kov, Rumyantsev becomes an accomplice in theft: he carries stolen goods in his truck. Rumyantsev is arrested, the police captain who investigates the case is unconditionally sure that the driver is guilty. However, the experienced сolonel Afanasyev believes Rumyantsev and exposes the real criminals.

Cast

• Aleksey Batalov as Sasha Rumyantsev, truck-driver
• Ninel Podgornaya as Claudia Naumenko, the student, Rumyantsev's bride
• Sergei Lukyanov as Sergei I. Afanasyev, police colonel
• Peter Lobanov as Samokhin, a police captain, inspector of OBKhSS
• Gennadi Yukhtin as Paul Evdokimov, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's friend
• Vladimir Lepko as Vasily Lemekhov, truck-driver
• Yevgeny Leonov as Mikhail Snegirev, truck-driver
• Inna Makarova as Nonna Snegireva, Mikhail Snegirev's wife
• Nikolai Kryuchkov as Korol'kov, chief of operations department
• Chekmaryov Victor as Shmyglo, a repeat offender, the ringleader of a gang of plunderers
• Ants Eskola as Prus, director of the shop, plunderer
• Arkady Trusov as Yakov Egorovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
• Ivan Selyanin as Vassily Stepanovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend
• Lyudmila Golubeva as Lyuba, the student, Claudia's friend
• Eugene Losakevich as Zoya Pavlovna, Claudia's aunt
• Viktor Koval as Sasha, orphan, an adopted Paul Evdokimov

References

External links

• Delo Rumyanceva at the Internet Movie Database