The Stray White and the Speckled
Genres
Overview
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…
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
100 min
Release Date
1986-10-30
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Vote Count
11
Vote Average
5.1
Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko
Ivan
Liubomiras Laucevicius
Ivan's father
Sultan Banov
Vladimir Steklov
Tzigan
Ilya Ivanov
Zhus
Andrei Bitov
Pepe
Boris Olekhnovich
Aleksandr Bashirov
Chudik
Boris Ryakhovsky
Rakov
Anatoly Slivnikov
Colonel
Arkady Vysotsky
Andrei Filozov
Sergei Bodrov
Leonid Filatov
(voice)
Ludmila Savelyeva
Sergey Garmash
Talgat Temenov
Rashid Nugmanov
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