Soviet customs officers + smuggled gold + murder = the coldest crime procedural you'll ever binge.
When vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an investigation to find the culprit and learn about a murder.
Acting
Boyarskiy's exhausted everyman carries the whole film.
Production
Soviet port cities never looked this beautifully bleak.
Director
Aleksandr Muratov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the Brezhnev stagnation, it's one of the few Soviet films to openly suggest customs officials were corruptible.
Boyarskiy hated this role so much he almost quit acting—then became a USSR pop star anyway.
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