
Why Was Olof Palme Killed?
1987-01-27 · 54 min · ★ 8.0
From the cycle "Political Theater". The teleplay is built as a kind of investigation into the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, during which, unlike a criminal investigation, not the identity of the criminal is revealed, but the fate of Palme himself, his life principles, views, intentions and dreams.
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- Margarita Tyupkina
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- Central Television USSR
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- Soviet Union
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- Released
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Oleg Efremov
Vladimir Portnov
Ion Ungureanu
Evgeniya Uralova
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