Film

The First Courier

1968 · 1h 31m · Drama · History

IMDb

6.7

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.

Stefan Danailov

Ivan Zagubanski

Zhanna Bolotova

Konkordiya Samoilova

Venelin Pekhlivanov

Georgy Bakalov

Vladimir Retsepter

Arseny Dokumyga

Evgeni Leonov

Kritski

Valentin Gaft

Nikolay Fon Getsberg

Nikolai Gubenko

Yasha Baronchik

Rita Gladunko

Margarita

Sergey Borisov

Docker

• Vladimir YanchevDirector
• Konstantin IsaevWriter
• Anatoliy KuznetsovDirector of Photography
• Peter StupelOriginal Music Composer

Release date

March 1, 1968

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama, History