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Letters from a Dead Man ()

Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (original title)
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In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
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Professor Larsen
Iosif Ryklin ...
Khyummel-otets (as I. Ryklin)
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(as V. Mikhaylov)
Aleksandr Sabinin ...
(as A. Sabinin)
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(as N. Gryakalova)
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Anna (as V. Mayorova)
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Pastor (as V. Dvorzhetskiy)
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(as V. Lobanov)
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Tereza (as S. Smirnova)
Nikolai Alkanov ...
(as N. Alkanov)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Misha Afankov
Vladimir Bessekernykh ...
(as Volodya Bessernykh)
Vera Karavayeva ...
(as Vera Pichulina)
Gena Maltsev
Kirill Matyunin
Gol Mikhaylov
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Vrach (as Ye. Platokhin)
S. Polishchuk
Lena Ptitsina
Mikhail Shteyn ...
(as M. Shteyn)
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Operator (as S. Sytnik)
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Dosimetrist (as V. Vasilyev)
Serzh Verebey
Natalya Vlasova ...
(as N. Vlasova)

Directed by

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Konstantin Lopushanskiy

Written by

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Konstantin Lopushanskiy ... (written by) &
Vyacheslav Rybakov ... (written by)
Boris Strugatskiy ... (collaboration)

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Yuri Golynchik ... executive producer
Raisa Proskuryakova ... executive producer

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Aleksandr Zhurbin

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Nikolai Pokoptsev

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Tatyana Pulina ... (as T. Pulinoy)

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Larissa Kosareva ... colorist
R. Shmarina ... assistant editor

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Yelena Amshinskaya
Viktor Ivanov

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Zoya Nikashina
Yu. Rotin
Aleksei Shkele

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Andzhela Sapunova ... (as A. Sapunova)
Ekaterina Shapkayts ... (as Ye. Shapkayts)

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O. Deyneko ... assistant makeup artist
Ye. Mizerina ... assistant makeup artist
V. Savelyev ... makeup artist

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Gennadi Chernyayev ... first assistant director
L. Fomina ... assistant director
V. Korolev ... assistant director
V. Ogorodnikov ... assistant director
Tatiana Rozantseva ... assistant director
Alla Sergeyeva ... first assistant director
V. Viktorov ... assistant director

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A. Pervukhina ... property master

Sound Department

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Leonid Gavrichenko ... sound

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Vladimir Khromov ... pyrotechnic effects
A. Mizerin ... pyrotechnic effects
O. Nikolayev ... special effects artist
A. Voronkov ... pyrotechnic effects
Dmitriy Zhelubovskiy ... special effects camera

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Aleksandr Filaretov ... stunt coordinator
Iosif Krinskiy ... stunt coordinator (as I. Krinskiy)
Aleksandr Baranov ... stunts (uncredited)

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Igor Bibeyev ... assistant camera (as I. Bibeyev)
S. Filanovsky ... camera operator
V. Grigoryev ... assistant camera
Konstantin Gurtyev ... gaffer
N. Lazutkin ... assistant camera
V. Maseyev ... camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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L. Karaseva ... costume supervisor

Script and Continuity Department

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Yury Pavlov ... script supervisor (as Yuriy Pavlov)
Tatyana Smorodinskaya ... script supervisor

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Andrei Gromyko ... main consultant

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Plot Summary

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit still sees somewhere the dim light of a new and better future. The next generation starts the walk towards a new life. Written by Jens Bertheau

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Also Known As
  • Pisma mertvogo cheloveka (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Письма мёртвого человека (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Dead Man's Letters (Canada, English title)
  • Letters from a Dead Man (World-wide, English title)
  • Dead Man's Letters (United States)
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  • 87 min
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Trivia The filmmakers took great care to continuously remind their viewers that what they're seeing is not happening in the Soviet Union. To ensure this, a lot of foreign items have been placed in the backgrounds which surely immediately caught the eye of the contemporary viewer. There is not a single object with Cyrillic letters, but there are plenty with English ones. Many items are Western consumer goods which were rare in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Particular examples are beer cans and a bottle of Jagermeister on a desk. The weapons the soldiers wield are also not even resembling Soviet rifles which would've been familiar to all viewers who completed their military services. They look more like a strange "crossbreed" of American M-16 and M-1 rifles. The vehicle the soldiers are using is a MAZ missile trailer truck, but the same vehicle was also built for the civilian market and sold to many countries. The helicopter that shows up in one of the scenes is a Kamov Ka-26 which was never used by the Soviet military (and in fact only one Warsaw Pact country did, Hungary). The hovercraft that is seen turning and leaving is also not a (known) military vehicle, but anyone in the 1980s should've associated the image with the air-cushion ferries on the English Channel which were a famous and novel technical achievement at the time. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in 10 Little Known But Genuinely Disturbing Films About Nukes (2018). See more »
Quotes Unknown: We should acknowledge the fact that the whole history of mankind is a story of a slow suicide commited by a living matter that by sheer accident acquired the abilty to think, but that did not know what to do with this fateful capacity. Full stop.
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