The Rumyantsev Case () is a 1956 Soviet crime drama film directed by Iosif Kheyfits.
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, a girl named Klavdya, is injured more seriously. Rumyantsev faces prosecution, but the investigator finds out the real reason of the accident and finds Rumyatsev innocent.
Sasha and Klavdya 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.
Production Production design by Isaak Kaplan, Berta Manevich Set decoration by Yu. Freydlin Makeup department by V. Sokolov
Cast Aleksey Batalov as Sasha Rumyantsev, truck-driver Ninel Podgornaya as Klavdya Naumenko, the student, Rumyantsev's bride Sergey Lukyanov as Sergey I. Afanasyev, police colonel Pyotr Lobanov as Samokhin, a police captain, inspector of OBKhSS Gennadi Yukhtin as Paul Evdokimov, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's friend Vladimir Lepko as Vasily Lemekhov, truck-driver Yevgeny Leonov as Mikhail Snegirev, truck-driver Inna Makarova as Nonna Snegireva, Mikhail Snegirev's wife Nikolay Kryuchkov as Korol'kov, chief of operations department Viktor Chekmaryov as Shmyglo, a repeat offender, the ringleader of a gang of plunderers Ants Eskola as Prus, director of the shop, plunderer Arkady Trusov as Yakov Egorovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend Ivan Selyanin as Vassily Stepanovich, truck-driver, Rumyantsev's eldest friend Lyudmila Golubeva as Lyuba, the student, Claudia's friend Yevgeny Losakevich as Zoya Pavlovna, Claudia's aunt Viktor Koval as Sasha, orphan, an adopted Paul Evdokimov
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Аннотированный каталог фильмов киностудии «Ленфильм» 1918—2003