Friend (1988)
1h 23m
Running Time
May 1, 1988Release Date
Friend (1988)
1h 23m
Running Time
May 1, 1988Release Date
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Plot.
Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.
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Cast & Crew.
Vasiliy Livanov
пёс Друг, озвучка
Sergey Shakurov
Nikolay «Kolyun» Nikitin
Anatoli Romashin
Drug's owner
Yelena Solovey
хозяйка Джери
Viktor Uralsky
Mitka
Galina Polskikh
Eleonora Frantsevna
Leonid Kvinikhidze
Director
Eduard Akopov
Writer
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Friend (Russian: Друг, romanized: Drug) is a 1987 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. The film tells the story of the friendship between a binge drinker (Sergey Shakurov) and a talking dog which understands what it means to be a real person better than humans and tries to help the man become whole again.