Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival
1980, Russian. Directed by Yevgeni Markovsky.
For Junior Lieutenant Lapshin, the first battle on the Far Eastern Front ended in failure: a Japanese suicide bomber threw himself under his tank and disabled him. Lapshin had private Komarov, a seasoned soldier and a former "penal guard" at his disposal from the entire crew. Yoshio Hanashi is also a suicide soldier who continues to fight alone...
- Runtime
- 0h 26m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 10 August 1980
- Original title
- Праздник фонарей
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Yevgeni Markovsky
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Lantern Festival runs 26 minutes (0h 26m).
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Who directed Lantern Festival?
Lantern Festival (1980) was directed by Yevgeni Markovsky and stars Yermek Shinarbayev, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Boris Chunaev.