Defence Counsel Sedov (Защитник Седов) 36 years old

Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.

Credits

Vladimir Ilin as

Vsevolod Larionov as

Pyotr Merkuryev as

Aleksandr Mokhov as

Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as

Garik Sukachyov as

Defence Counsel Sedov Cast

Name	Character
Vladimir Ilin He was 49, 68 years old when he died
Vsevolod Larionov He was 59, 72 years old when he died
Pyotr Merkuryev He was 44, 67 years old when he died
Aleksandr Mokhov
Vatslav Dvorzhetsky He was 77, 82 years old when he died
Garik Sukachyov He was 28, now 65 years old
Sergei Artsybashev He was 36, 63 years old when he died
Mariya Barabanova She was 76, 81 years old when she died
Игорь Штернберг
Albina Matveyeva She was 48, now 85 years old
Natalya Shchukina

Defence Counsel Sedov Crew

Name	Department
Evgeny Tsymbal as Director. He was 38 (now 75) years old	Directing

Defence Counsel Sedov (36 years)

Release day: Saturday, January 02, 1988