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The Chain Reaction

8.6 79 mins Crime   Mystery   Drama   1962
Mosfilm   Gosteleradio USSR  
Director(s): Ivan Pravov

An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old “personnels” to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a complete "personnel crisis" has come. The ensuing meeting with the former bootlegger — Senka-Moroz, who broke with his past and found happiness in his family and honest work, leads the Cardinal to confusion and mental confusion. A conversation with Professor Muromtsev, a terminally ill person who nevertheless cares about the fate of others, shock the "Cardinal" and he takes the first but decisive step towards a new life, breaking with the criminal world.

Casts of The Chain Reaction

Vladimir Kenigson

as "Cardinal"

Lev Ivanov

as Muromtsev

Eduard Bredun

as Senka-Moroz

Leonid Usach

as "Bubble"

Emmanuil Nelin

as "Zyamka-kangaroo"

Nikolay Gagarin

as "Pigeon"

Gurgen Tonunts

as "Doctor"

Pyotr Repnin

as Kadetskiy

Vsevolod Yakut

as "Author"

Nina Agapova

as robbed woman

Bulat Okudzhava

as bus passenger

Yevdokiya Urusova

as aunt Sasha

Mikhail Vorobyov

as pickpocket

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