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The Murder at Zhdanovskaya

The film is based on real events that took place in Moscow in the early 1980s. A KGB officer in plain clothes returning late at night is detained by a police patrol at the Zhdanovskaya metro station. The officer, who began to actively protest against the arbitrariness, was taken to the police duty room and severely injured. After that, the police officers decided to finish off their victim and take the body away and dump it outside the city. The investigation is entrusted to Gleb Yarin, an investigator with the USSR Prosecutor's Office. Soon he finds himself involved in a confrontation between two irreconcilable rivals — the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The senior police leadership is determined to cover up the scandal between the security agencies by any means necessary.

Top Cast

  • Ivan Bortnik

    Ivan Bortnik

    Gleb Yarin

  • Vadim Zakharchenko

    Vadim Zakharchenko

    Andropov

  • Boris Novikov

    Boris Novikov

    Mitrich

  • Vladimir Ivashov

    Vladimir Ivashov

    Viktor Vasilievitch

  • Sergey Bachurskiy

    Sergey Bachurskiy

    Sirotin

  • Natalya Goncharova

    Natalya Goncharova

    Sotrudnik prokuratury

  • Anatoliy Ivanov

    Anatoliy Ivanov

    Sergey Lagutin

  • Mikhail Kalinkin

    Mikhail Kalinkin

  • Yuri Malyarov

    Yuri Malyarov

    Anokhin

Overview

The film is based on real events that took place in Moscow in the early 1980s. A KGB officer in plain clothes returning late at night is detained by a police patrol at the Zhdanovskaya metro station. The officer, who began to actively protest against the arbitrariness, was taken to the police duty room and severely injured. After that, the police officers decided to finish off their victim and take the body away and dump it outside the city. The investigation is entrusted to Gleb Yarin, an investigator with the USSR Prosecutor's Office. Soon he finds himself involved in a confrontation between two irreconcilable rivals — the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The senior police leadership is determined to cover up the scandal between the security agencies by any means necessary.

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