Before Dawn

Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.

Cast

Evgeny Mironov

as Lieutenant

Valeri Ryzhakov

as Nikolai

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy

as Vaska

Oleg Korchikov

Kostiantyn Stepankov

as Valentin Nevolin

Vyacheslav Kirilichev

as Old man

Raisa Ryazanova

Igor Varpa

Viktor Uralsky

Aleksandr Olkov

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