The Cutlass (1954)
The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
Directors: Mikhail Shveitser, Vladimir Vengerov.
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Arkadi Tolbuzin as Commissar Polevoy |
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Bruno Frejndlikh as Nikitskiy |
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Vladimir Shakhmametiev as Misha Polyakov |
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Boris Arakelov as Genka |
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Nina Krachkovskaya as Valya Ivanova |
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German Khovanov as Sviridov |
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Natalya Rashevskaya as Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva |
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Konstantin Adashevsky as Philatelist |
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Sergei Filippov as Filin |
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Igor Kasparov as Slava |
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Valeri Sebekin as Vovka Baranov |
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Viktor Brits as Misha Korovin |
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Boris Ignatyev as Borka |
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Aleksandr Susnin as Styopa |
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Vadim Medvedev as Vladimir Vladimirovich Terentyev |
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Yekaterina Sobol as бабушка Бяшки |
| Directing | Mikhail Shveitser | Director |
| Writing | Anatoli Rybakov | Novel |
| Directing | Vladimir Vengerov | Director |
| Writing | Innokenty Gomello | Writer |
| Sound | Boris Arapov | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Aleksei Fedotov | Production Design |
| Camera | Veniamin Levitin | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Anatoli Rybakov | Writer |
| Editing | Yevgeniya Makhankova | Editor |
| Art | Aleksei Rudyakov | Production Design |
| Camera | Vladimir Burykin | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Lev Makhtin | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Lev Valter | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Matskevich | Costume Design |
| Directing | Aleksandr Melnikov | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Shurkin | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Boris Mikhaylov | VFX Supervisor |
| Production | Fridrikh Ermler | Producer |
| Production | Pyotr Nikashin | Executive Producer |
