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The Last Day (Russian: Самый последний день, romanized: Samy posledny den) is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Ulyanov. The screen version of the play of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.[1]

The Last Day
Directed by	Mikhail Ulyanov
Written by	Boris Vasilyev Mikhail Ulyanov
Produced by	Yu. Galkovsky
Starring	Oleg Tabakov Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Cinematography	Elizbar Karavayev
Edited by	Tamara Zubrova
Music by	Isaac Schwartz
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	12 February 1973 (1973-02-12)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

Plot

On his last working day, the outgoing district plenipotentiary, junior police lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalyov, as usual, bypasses the site and solves the accumulated problems. Among the usual cases, parsing and talking with drunkards, he finds time for the neighbor girl Alla, who fell under the influence of the leader of the thieves' gang. Seeing her in the company of a young man, similar in description to a certain Valera, suspected of theft, he tries to detain him, but he is killed by a lethal blow.

Cast

• Mikhail Ulyanov as Kovalyov
• Vyacheslav Nevinny as Stepan Danilovich Stepeshko
• Igor Kashintsev as Grisha
• Bohdan Stupka as Valery
• Mikhail Zhigalov as lieutenant
• Vladimir Nosik as Sergey
• Valentina Vladimirova as mother
• Pyotr Kolbasin as policeman
• Vitali Konyayev as episode (uncredited)

Other screen versions

In 1972, the director Boris Ravenskikh staged a play by Vasilyev at the Maly Theatre. In 1973 the performance was recorded for television.[2]

References

External links

• The Last Day at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] The Last Day (1972 film)

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[ru] Самый последний день (фильм)

«Са́мый после́дний день» — советский художественный фильм, драма режиссёра Михаила Ульянова по одноимённой повести Бориса Васильева. Первый и последний фильм Михаила Ульянова в качестве режиссёра, после чего он решил более не снимать фильмы из-за неудачного, по его мнению, опыта.

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