A detective hunts a Nazi ghost hiding in plain Soviet sight — but secrets rot from within.
A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII.
Acting
Lukyanov's dual identity — two men, one terrifying calm.
Direction
Rozantsev frames paranoia through doorways and shadows.
Production
1964 Soviet aesthetic: institutional bleakness as character.
Director
Nikolai Rozantsev
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Андрей Поликанов
Alina Pokrovskaya
Майя Саранцева-Чернышёва
Sergei Lukyanov
Юрий Золотицкий/Александр Чернышёв
Pavel Kadochnikov
Алексей Басов
Klara Luchko
Нина Семёнова
Oleg Zhakov
Леонид Иванович
Bruno Frejndlikh
Доре/Виктор Куликов
Aleksandr Mombeli
Сергей Утехин
Stepan Krylov
Василий Иванович
Jānis Kubilis
сотрудник КГБ в Риге
Antonina Pavlycheva
Анна Шелкова
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Khrushchev's Thaw, when Soviet cinema briefly touched forbidden WWII topics like collaboration.
The film's real villain isn't the Nazi — it's the bureaucratic machine that prefers buried secrets to messy justice.
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