3.088 minSeason 1 • Episode 5
LatestEvents develop in the lair of the "Black Cat", where Sharapov gets, trying to get in touch with the bandits. Meanwhile, Zheglov, realizing that "the meeting place can not be changed", prepares the store for a special operation.
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...
Acting
Vysotsky's Zheglov: charismatic, terrifying, unforgettable.
Direction
Govorukhin crafts Moscow as a character—wounded, watchful.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it could cut through KGB wire.
Creator
Stanislav Govorukhin
Vladimir Konkin
Vladimir Sharapov
Vladimir Vysotsky
Gleb Zheglov
Sergei Yursky
Груздев
Viktor Pavlov
Левченко
Natalya Fateyeva
Ира Соболевская
Leonid Kuravlyov
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Надя Колесова
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Евгений Фокс
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Пётр Ручников (вор «Ручечник»)
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
«Горбатый»
Valeriya Zaklunnaya
любовница «Горбатого» Клавдия
Zinoviy Gerdt
сосед Шарапова Михаил Бомзе
Yevgeni Shutov
Сергей Панков
Natalya Danilova
Варя Синичкина
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
Вася Векшин
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vysotsky was a banned poet-rockstar; his casting as Zheglov made the character dangerously sexy to millions, complicating the film's moral critique.
The title comes from a real telegram sent by a captured criminal—Govorukhin found it in KGB archives and built the entire finale around its fatal romanticism.
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