

Dead Man's Letters
1986-12-12 · 83 min · ★ 6.9
In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.
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- Directors
- Konstantin Lopushansky
- Production companies
- Lenfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Rolan BykovProfessor Larsen
Vatslav DvorzhetskyPastor
Vera MayorovaAnna
Iosif RyklinHumanist
Evgeniy PlatokhinVrach
Svetlana SmirnovaTereza
Nora Gryakalova
Vadim Lobanov
Viktor Mikhaylov
Natalya Vlasova
Gennady Makoev
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