Defence Counsel Sedov
1988, Russian. Directed by Evgeny Tsymbal.
Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
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- Russian
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- Released
- 2 January 1988
- Original title
- Защитник Седов
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Mariya Zvereva, Ilya Zverev
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Defence Counsel Sedov (1988) was directed by Evgeny Tsymbal and stars Vladimir Ilin, Albina Matveyeva, Tamara Chernova.