The Dryden will screen Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Aleksej German, Soviet Union 1985, 100 min., 35mm, Russian w/ subtitles).

"Set in provincial Russia in 1935, My Friend Ivan Lapshin was banned for fourteen years for its evocative dramatization of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history. A police investigator relentlessly and mercilessly pursues a gang of criminals, but in the process comes to realize the distance between the idealism of the revolutionaries and the grim, frightening reality of the Stalinist era." — Anthology Film Archives.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-29]