Escape of Mr. McKinley
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Mikhail Shveitser
Konstantin Stenkin
Casts & Crew
Donatas Banionis
Zhanna Bolotova
Angelina Stepanova
Boris Babochkin
Alla Demidova
Vladimir Vysotskiy
Aleksandr Vokach
Vladimir Smirnov
Sophia Garrel
Leonid Kuravlyov
Tatyana Lavrova
Victor Sergachev
Vladimir Kenigson
Olga Barnet
Yuri Volyntsev
Igor Kvasha
Igor Kashintsev
Aleksei Safonov
Yuri Komarov
Nikolai Volkov St.
Victor Semenov
Mikhail Sidorkin
Lev Polyakov
Natalia Leble
Nadezhda Samsonova
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