Alone and Unarmed (russian: Один и без оружия, Odin i bez oruzhiya) is a Soviet 1984
crime drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by Pavel Fattahutdinov and
Vladimir Khotinenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko (russian: Владимир Иванович Хотиненко; born 20 January 1952 in Slavgorod, Altai Krai, Soviet Union) is a Russian actor, film director and designer.
Biography
Born in the Altai Krai, Russian ...
. A screen adaptation of the detective Nikolai Leonov's ''Agony''.Один и без оружия /ref>
Plot
The film is set in 1927. Former commander of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...
Konstantin Vorontsov is appointed chief of criminal investigation in a small provincial town. Together with experienced investigation employee Ivan Melentyev, he starts to fight the leader of the thieves' world who goes by the name of Korney. Vorontsov and Melentyev prefer different methods of work; if Melentyev relies on deliberate placement of his people in the criminal environment, then Vorontsov wants to act as quickly as possible. The complexity of the struggle against Korney is that he does not commit the crimes with his own hands but instead oversees their execution. Due to a successful operation judiciary police manages to plant their agent to Korney in order to find out the place and time of the upcoming thief gathering. But at the last moment he changes the gathering place. Vorontsov has no time to warn anyone and is forced to act alone. He cleverly plays on the diverging interests in the company of thieves and destroys their sense of community. Korney kills Vorontsov but then gets arrested.
Cast
*Vasily Mishchenko as ''Konstantin Nikolaevich Vorontsov''
* Ivan Agafonov as ''Korney''
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Vsevolod Larionov
Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (russian: Всеволод Дмитриевич Ларионов; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000Viktor Bortsov as ''Dmitry Sergeyevich''
* Boris Galkin as ''Sonny''
* Adolf Ilyin as ''Alexey''
* Mikhail Kononov as ''Pyotr, porter''
*Avangard Leontyev as ''photographer''
* Elena Mayorova as ''Darya Ivanovna Latysheva''
* Talgat Nigmatulin as ''Khan (Hassan Halidov)''
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Nikolay Smorchkov
Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov (russian: Николай Гаврилович Сморчков; 9 August 1930 – 7 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian film actor.
Biography
Nikolay Smorchkov was born on 9 August 1930 in the village of Ivanko ...
Kungur
Kungur (russian: Кунгу́р) is a town in the southeast of Perm Krai, Russia, located in the Ural Mountains at the confluence of the rivers Iren and Shakva with the Sylva (Kama's basin). Population: 64,800 (1959); 36,000 (1939).
Histo ...