KGB corruption, slapstick chases, and a funeral nobody asked for — Soviet cinema went WILD.
An action-packed film about the investigation of a crime in which corrupt layers from the top KGB are involved.
Acting
Smolyakov's Bugrov — sleazeball charisma you can't look away from.
Direction
Two directors, one wild tonal ride between farce and thriller.
Director
Elena Aminova
Anatoli Khostikoyev
Arkadiy Yershov
Yuriy Osipov
Victor Grigorievich
Andrey Smolyakov
Andrey Bugrov
Tatyana Lyutaeva
Sveta
Vasiliy Mishchenko
police sergeant
Galina Polskikh
mother of Bugrov
Aristarkh Livanov
official
Boris Zajdenberg
Zaborin
Yuriy Dumchev
Circassian bodyguard
Gennadiy Ivanov
employee of department 9
Aleksandr Lenkov
Burr
Igor Shapovalov
Circassian
Valeri Gatayev
Voloshin
Valeriy Smetskoy
Guram Chhatkelli
Igor Vorobyev
katala
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made months before the USSR collapsed — the KGB-as-villain premise went from subversive to historical document overnight.
Aminova and Stashkov reportedly fought so much on set that crew members placed bets on who'd quit first. Neither did. Somehow.
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