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The Stray White and the Speckled (1986)

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Vyacheslav IlyushchenkoVyacheslav IlyushchenkoIvan
  • Photo of Liubomiras LaucevičiusLiubomiras LaucevičiusIvan's father
  • Photo of Sultan BanovSultan Banov
  • Photo of Vladimir SteklovVladimir SteklovTzigan
  • Photo of Ilya IvanovIlya IvanovZhus
  • Photo of Andrei BitovAndrei BitovPepe
  • Photo of Boris OlekhnovichBoris Olekhnovich
  • Photo of Aleksandr BashirovAleksandr BashirovChudik
  • Photo of Boris RyakhovskyBoris RyakhovskyRakov
  • Photo of Anatoly SlivnikovAnatoly SlivnikovColonel

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