Penal Servitude

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

Cast

Andrei Zhilinsky

as Ilya Berts

Pavel Tamm

as Peshekhonov

Vladimir Taskin

as Illarion Ostrobeylo

Mikhail Yanshin

as Telegraphist

Vladimir Popov

as Chernyak

Ivan Lavrov

as Uncredited

Boris Lifanov

as Katulski

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