| The Last Day | |
| Director: | Mikhail Ulyanov |
| Producer: | Yu. Galkovsky |
| Starring: | Oleg Tabakov |
| Music: | Isaac Schwartz |
| Cinematography: | Elizbar Karavayev |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
| Editing: | Tamara Zubrova |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Country: | USSR |
| Language: | Russian |
The Last Day (Russian: Самый последний день|Samy posledny den) is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Ulyanov. The screen version of the play of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.[1]
On his last working day, the outgoing district plenipotentiary, junior police lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalyov, as usual, bypasses the site and solves the accumulated problems. Among the usual cases, parsing and talking with drunkards, he finds time for the neighbor girl Alla, who fell under the influence of the leader of the thieves' gang. Seeing her in the company of a young man, similar in description to a certain Valera, suspected of theft, he tries to detain him, but he is killed by a lethal blow.
In 1972, the director Boris Ravenskikh staged a play by Vasilyev at the Maly Theatre. In 1973 the performance was recorded for television.[2]