Soviet cops vs. dead-eyed youth in a moral wasteland where the real crime is spiritual rot.
A crime has been committed. The worst thing is murder... Who is the culprit? What are the motives for the crime? These and many related questions face police colonel Drobyshev and senior lieutenant Samarin. During the investigation, they encounter young people whose spiritual poverty is terrible in its moral consequences.
Direction
Latyshev's clinical framing makes despair feel almost documentary.
Acting
Leonidov's exhausted authority versus Efremov's hollow-eyed youth.
Director
Vladimir Latyshev
Leonid Leonidov
Виктор Васильевич Дробышев
Valeriy Poletayev
Алексей Самарин
Oleg Efremov
оперативник
Andrey Urgant
эксперт-криминалист
Sergey Okman
Sergey Kashevarov
прокурор
Yelena Solovyova
Вера Назаренко
Aleksey Babutskiy
Андрей Давыдов (Звонарь)
Andrei Pavlovets
Игорь Назаренко
Tsetsiliya Fain
Александра Николаевна Питоева
Dmitriy Shulkin
Николай Васильевич Трофимов
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Gorbachev's early glasnost, this represents a wave of Soviet cinema interrogating 'the new Soviet person' and finding nothing there.
Latyshev was primarily a documentarian; this fiction debut borrows techniques from his true-crime work that make the investigation feel unsettlingly real.
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