The Rumyantsev Case

The Rumyantsev Case
Directed by Iosif Kheifits
Written by Yuri German
Iosif Kheifits
Starring Aleksey Batalov
Ninel Podgornaya
Sergei Lukyanov
Nikolai Kryuchkov
Music by Benedict Pushkov
Cinematography Leo Sokolsky
Moses Magid
Production
company
Release dates
8 March 1956
Running time
103 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

The Rumyantsev Case[1] (Russian: Дело Румянцева[2], translit. Delo Rumyanceva) is a 1956 Soviet film directed by Iosif Kheifits.


Plot

Young truck-driver Sasha Rumyantsev, trying to avoid running over a child, has an accident, his car crashes into a brick wall. Rumyantsev receives minor injuries, but his occasional passenger, girl named Claudia, is injured more seriously. Rumyantsev faces prosecution, but the investigator finds out the real reason of the accident and finds Rumyatsev innocent.

Sasha and Claudia fall in love with each other, they are ready for living together and plan a wedding, but Rumyantsev falls into trouble again ... Rumyantsev's chief Korol'kov, scoundrel and drunkard, draws Sasha into his illegal enterprise. Because of Korol'kov, Rumyantsev becomes an accomplice in theft: he carries stolen goods in his truck. Rumyantsev is arrested, the police captain who investigates the case is unconditionally sure that the driver is guilty. However, the experienced сolonel Afanasyev believes Rumyantsev and exposes the real criminals.

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