The Stray White and the Speckled

The Stray White and the Speckled

1986 · 100 min · ★ 5.5 · Drama

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…

Directed by Sergei Solovyov · Written by Sergei Solovyov

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Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko Ivan
Liubomiras Laucevičius Ivan's father
Sultan Banov
Vladimir Steklov Tzigan
Ilya Ivanov Zhus
Andrei Bitov Pepe
Boris Olekhnovich
Aleksandr Bashirov Chudik
Boris Ryakhovsky Rakov
Anatoly Slivnikov Colonel
Arkady Vysotsky
Andrei Filozov

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