Movie

The Mandate (1964)

• October 26, 1964
• 1h 22m

• Adventure

Overview

1919. Gleb Prokhorov, a worker from St. Petersburg, is sent on a mission by the party to lead a small food supply detachment with a mandate signed by Lenin to a village to get bread for starving Petrograd. But in an unequal battle with the kulaks, the entire food supply detachment is killed, and the wounded Prokhorov passes the mandate on to his thirteen-year-old son, Glebka...

Director

Nikolai Lebedev

Writers

Aleksandr Vlasov, Arkadi Mlodik

Starring

Yuriy Bogolyubov, Nikolay Rozhdestvensky, Oleg Letnikov