Preliminary Investigation
1979, Russian. Directed by Andrei Razumovsky.
Far Eastern policeman Serezhkin, the hero of the movies "The Master of the Taiga" and "The Missing Witness", is now a captain. This time he investigates a complex case of missing rafts with wood, about the fight loggers with foreman Chubatov and a fire at the timber warehouse. All three cases are in one bundle: the intruders are trying to blame everything on the foreman. But Serezhkin is an experienced detective to figure it all out and save an honest man from prison.
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- Post-credits
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- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Andrei RazumovskyDirector
- Valeriy ZolotukhinVasiliy Fokich Serozhkin — kapitan militsii
- Yuriy NazarovIvan Gavrilovich Chubatov
- Nadezhda RepinaDar'ya — nevesta Chubatova
- Vladimir GostyukhinPavel Boborykin
- Viktor Shulgindyadya Fedot
- Maksim MunzukArchyo - Udyghe
- Valentin GrachyovNikolay Dmitriyevich Savel'yev - prokuror
- Georgiy Yumatovnachal'nik militsii - podpolkovnik
- Oleg GolubitskyFedor Aleksandrovich - predsedatel' rayispolkoma
- Ivan SavkinVsevolod Nikolayevich - pervyy sekretar' raykoma partii
- Leonid ChubarovVasily Ivanovich Zavyalov
- Alla MeshcheryakovaTat'yana - zhena Serezhkina
Details
- Released
- 1 October 1979
- Original title
- Предварительное расследование
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Boris Mozhayev
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Preliminary Investigation (1979) was directed by Andrei Razumovsky and stars Valeriy Zolotukhin, Yuriy Nazarov, Nadezhda Repina.