The First Courier
1968, Russian. Directed by Vladimir Yanchev.
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 March 1968
- Original title
- Первый курьер
- Country
- Soviet Union, Bulgaria
- Written by
- Konstantin Isaev
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The First Courier isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 March 1968. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The First Courier?
The First Courier (1968) was directed by Vladimir Yanchev and stars Stefan Danailov, Zhanna Bolotova, Venelin Pekhlivanov.