The Road (1955 film)

1955 Soviet film

The Road

Directed by| Aleksandr Stolper
Written by| Sergei Yermolinsky
Starring|

* Andrei Popov
* Nikolai Gritsenko
* Yevgeny Leonov

Music by| Nikolai Kryukov

Production
company

Mosfilm

Release date

* 3 October 1955 (1955-10-03)

Running time

| 103 minutes
Country| Soviet Union
Language| Russian

The Road (Russian: Дорога, romanized: Doroga) is a 1955 Soviet action adventure film directed by Aleksandr Stolper and starring Andrei Popov and Nikolai Gritsenko.[1]

## Plot

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On a newly constructed mountain road in the eastern USSR, dozens of vehicles carrying passengers and cargo are stranded due to heavy snowfall. Among those stuck are a State Security captain and "Swedish Professor Raiding," who is, in fact, Reginald Sniders, a foreign intelligence agent. The next morning, despite the ongoing blizzard, the convoy sets out to tackle the mountain pass.

## Cast

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* Andrei Popov as Sergei Ignatyevich Baitalin
* Vitaly Doronin as Fyodor Ivanovich
* Nikolai Gritsenko as Ivan Alekseyevich
* Tamara Loginova as Yekaterina Andreyevna Fyodorova
* Lev Sverdlin as Beimbetov
* Viktor Avdyushko as Vasya
* Yevgeny Matveyev as Grigory Ivanovich Polipchuk
* Yevgeny Leonov as Pasha Yeskov
* Nikolai Sergeyev as Pavel Petrovich Falkovsky
* Vladimir Kenigson as Reginald Snyders

## References

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1. ^ Rollberg p.669

## Bibliography

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* Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

## External links

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* The Road at IMDb

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Films by Aleksandr Stolper

* The Law of Life (1940)
* Lad from Our Town (1942)
* Wait for Me (1943)
* Days and Nights (1945)
* Tale of a True Man (1948)
* Far from Moscow (1950)
* The Road (1955)
* A Unique Spring (1957)
* Hard Happiness (1958)
* The Living and the Dead (1964)
* Retribution (1967)
* The Fourth (1972)

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