A locker room janitor at the train station notices that a suitcase was put in a locker by a man, but pulled out by another man. This suitcase appeared to be stuffed with money. This incident allows a police detective to uncover a huge criminal organization responsible for theft, smuggling and murder.
Acting
Burkov's weary, chain-smoking detective anchors every scene.
Direction
Blank's methodical pacing mirrors Soviet institutional machinery.
Production
Cramped locations feel authentically suffocating and real.
Director
Aleksandr Blank
Georgi Burkov
Detective Boris Ivanovich Antonov
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Viktor Lykin
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Anatoly Krupanin
Irina Miroshnichenko
Natasha
Nikolai Pastukhov
Gubanov
Yuri Grebenshchikov
Nikolai Parfyonov
Klara Luchko
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Nikolai Prokopovich
Nikolay Zasukhin
Aleksandr Lazarev
Yuriy Solovyov
Inga Budkevich
Vladimir Mashchenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during glasnost precursors, this TV movie quietly critiqued Soviet institutions before it was officially allowed.
The 313-minute runtime was split across multiple nights for original broadcast—Soviet families literally lived with this case.
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