Dead Man's Letters (1986)

★ 6.9 1h 23m 129 votes IMDb
Drama Sci-Fi
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In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.

Dead Man's Letters

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Cast

Rolan Bykov
Rolan Bykov as Professor Died 1998 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Ukraine] Rolan Antonovich Bykov (Russian: Ролан Антонович Быков; October 12, 1929 – October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director, screenwriter, educator at High Courses for Script...
Iosif Ryklin
Iosif Ryklin as Humanist Age 100 · USSR
Nora Gryakalova
Nora Gryakalova Died 2007 · USSR
Vadim Lobanov
Vadim Lobanov Died 2021 · Voronezh, USSR (Russia)
Viktor Mikhaylov
Viktor Mikhaylov Age 75 · Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR
Vera Mayorova
Vera Mayorova as Anna Age 86 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Director Konstantin Lopushansky
Cast Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Aleksandr Sabinin, Nora Gryakalova, Vadim Lobanov, Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Svetlana Smirnova, Natalya Vlasova, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky

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Andres Gomez 7/10 Mar 13, 2014
Interesting an depressing movie with great staging.

In some ways, really similar to "Threads".

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