

The Journalist
1967-09-23 · 226 min · ★ 5.7
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
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- Directors
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Production companies
- Gorky Film Studios
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Galina PolskikhShura Okayomova
Yuri VasilyevYuri Alyabyev
Nadezhda FedosovaVarvara Anikina
Sergey NikonenkoAleksandr Reutov
Tamara MakarovaOlga Panina
Sergei GerasimovAlexei Kolesnikov
Yusup DaniyalovNikolai Rustamovich
Ivan LapikovPavel Pustovoytov
Vasiliy ShukshinYevgeni Sergeyevich
Valeri MalyshevGena
Yuriy KuzmenkovKuzmenkov
Vadim ZakharchenkoEditorial Staff
Vladimir PitsekVladimir Kondratyevich
German PoloskovEmployee of the Moscow Editorial Office
Valentina TelichkinaValya Korolkova
Galina GrigoryevaAlyabyev's Mother
Sofya PavlovaShura's Mother
Olga MarkinaAngelina Antonovna
Lyusyena OvchinnikovaTamara
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