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The Cutlass (1954)
Directed by Mikhail Shveitser, Vladimir Vengerov
“Dagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it...”
Mystery, Family, Adventure · 1h 23m
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.
Cast
Arkadi Tolbuzin
Commissar Polevoy
Bruno Frejndlikh
Nikitskiy
Boris Arakelov
Genka
Nina Krachkovskaya
Valya Ivanova
Natalya Rashevskaya
Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
Konstantin Adashevsky
Philatelist
Sergei Filippov
Filin
Crew
- Director
- Mikhail Shveitser, Vladimir Vengerov
- Writer
- Anatoli Rybakov, Innokenty Gomello
- Novel
- Anatoli Rybakov
- Director of Photography
- Veniamin Levitin
- Original Music Composer
- Boris Arapov
- Editor
- Yevgeniya Makhankova
Details
- Original title
- Кортик
- Release date
- 1954-11-26
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Mystery, Family, Adventure
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm