The Favorite (Russian: Фаворит, romanized: Favorit) is a two-part film based on the 1962 detective novel of British writer Dick Francis, Dead Cert. For the first time the Soviet Central Television was demonstrated on 13 and 14 September 1977.
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Directed by | Vasile Breşcanu |
Written by | Alexey Nagorny Heliy Ryabov |
Starring | Arnis Licitis Ints Burans Ion Ungureanu |
Cinematography | Leonid Proskurov |
Edited by | Nikolai Chaika |
Music by | Yakov Vaysburd |
Production company | Moldova-Film |
Release date | 1976[1] |
Running time | 132 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
After the death of Bill Davidson at the races, his friend the jockey Alan York (Arnis Licitis) learns that this was not an accident. Attempts to establish a murder client lead him to the disclosure of a whole criminal group, headed by a person close to him.
He gradually penetrates deep into intrigue, connected not only with the jumps on which Bill died, but also with a local gang of taxi drivers. Not only love and the desire for the hostess of the new racehorse, Kate, which Alan must ride, but also the debt to Bill's wife, forces him to ask the same questions over and over again.
The film actively uses the music of John Lennon from the album Imagine.[2]
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