Why?
1991, Russian. Directed by Ilya Gurin.
The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Ilya GurinDirector
- Ivan LapikovAleksei
- Galina OrlovaLiza
- Boris NevzorovNikolai Artyomovich
- Ada RohovtsevaTatyana Sergeyevna
- Lyusyena OvchinnikovaMariya
- Vadim LyubshinAlyosha
- Elena DrobyshevaGulya
- Igor BochkinPavel
- Gennadi FrolovNikolai Afanasevich
- Valeri NadejkoMitka
- Tatyana BojtovaYoung Mariya
- Sergey ChekanYoung Aleksei
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1991
- Original title
- За что?
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Ilya Gurin, Vatslav Mikhalsky
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How long is Why??
Why? runs 151 minutes (2h 31m).
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Who directed Why??
Why? (1991) was directed by Ilya Gurin and stars Ivan Lapikov, Galina Orlova, Boris Nevzorov.