The Cutlass
“Dagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it...”
1954•1h 23m•4.4•Released
MysteryFamilyAdventure
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.
Director
Mikhail Shveitser
Writer
Innokenty Gomello, Anatoli Rybakov
Languages
Russian
Studio
Lenfilm
Cast
Arkadi Tolbuzin
Commissar Polevoy
Bruno Frejndlikh
Nikitskiy
Vladimir Shakhmametiev
Misha Polyakov
Boris Arakelov
Genka
Nina Krachkovskaya
Valya Ivanova
German Khovanov
Sviridov
Natalya Rashevskaya
Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
Konstantin Adashevsky
Philatelist
Sergei Filippov
Filin
Igor Kasparov
Slava
Valeri Sebekin
Vovka Baranov
Viktor Brits
Misha Korovin
Boris Ignatyev
Borka
Aleksandr Susnin
Styopa
Vadim Medvedev
Vladimir Vladimirovich Terentyev
Production
Company
Lenfilm
Producer
Fridrikh Ermler
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