The Lower Depths
1972, Russian. Directed by Galina Volchek & Leonid Pchyolkin.
A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.
- Runtime
- 2h 52m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Galina VolchekDirector
- Leonid PchyolkinDirector
- Evgeniy EvstigneevSatin
- Igor KvashaLuka
- Andrey MyagkovBaron
- Valentin NikulinActor
- Liliya TolmachevaNastya
- Valeri KhlevinskyVaska Pepel
- Alla PokrovskayaNatasha
- Nina DoroshinaVasilisa Karpovna
- Pyotr ShcherbakovBubnov
- Grigori OstrinMikhail Ivanovich Kostylyov
- Viktor SergachyovKleshch, Andrei Mitrich
- Oleg TabakovTatarin
Details
- Released
- 5 September 1972
- Original title
- На дне
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Galina Volchek, Leonid Pchyolkin
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The Lower Depths runs 172 minutes (2h 52m).
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The Lower Depths isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 September 1972. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Lower Depths?
The Lower Depths (1972) was directed by Galina Volchek and Leonid Pchyolkin and stars Evgeniy Evstigneev, Igor Kvasha, Andrey Myagkov.