Defence Counsel Sedov
Защитник Седов
Release: 1988-01-02
·★ 3.9
Drama
Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Igor Shternberg
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Vsevolod Larionov
Pyotr Merkuryev
Mariya Barabanova
Mikhail Remizov
Aleksandr Zharkov
Tamara Chernova
Sergei Artsybashev
Sergey Serov
Vitaliy Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sazhin
Garik Sukachyov
Natalya Shchukina
Aleksandr Mokhov
Alexandr Kalugin
Vladimir Ilin
Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
