''The Criminal Quartet'' (russian: Криминальный квартет, Kriminalnyy kvartet) is a 1989 Soviet action film directed by
Aleksandr Muratov.
Plot
The investigator discovers a large consignment of defective shoes at the trading base and starts a case about this. Suddenly his son disappears. Soon the bell rings. The kidnappers demand that he close the case if he wants to see his son alive.
The hero tells this to his friends, two operatives and a journalist. They have been friends since the orphanage and are ready to do anything for a friend! Four fearless men challenge the mafia.
Cast
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Nikolai Karachentsov
Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov (russian: Николай Петрович Караченцов, 27 October 1944 – 26 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre. Karachentsov's popularity peaked in the late 197 ...
as Marat
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Vladimir Steklov as Semyon Portnoi, Investigator
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Boris Shcherbakov
Boris Vasilevich Shcherbakov (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Щербако́в; born 11 December 1949) is Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russian Federation (1994). Winner of USSR State Prize (1985).
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as Pyotr Sarayev
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Vladimir Yeryomin as Nikolay Larin
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Semyon Farada as Levkoev
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Oleg Anofriev as Matvey Iosifovich Feldman
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Alexey Sheynin as factory chief technologist
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Yuriy Katin-Yartsev as Semyon Moiseevich
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Nele Savichenko-Klimene as Lyusya, Portnoi's wife
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Boris Klyuyev as factory chief engineer
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Lev Prygunov
Lev Georgievich Prygunov (russian: Лев Гео́ргиевич Прыгуно́в; born 23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian actor, painter, People's Artist of Russia (2013). His son is a Russian film director .
After graduation ...
as Lev
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Yuriy Nazarov as Dmitry, police officer
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Igor Yasulovich
Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue.
Biography
Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfe ...
as Shakalov
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Vadim Spiridonov
Vadim Semyonovich Spiridonov (russian: Вадим Семёнович Спиридонов; 14 October 1944 – 7 December 1989) was a Soviet film actor, film director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (19 ...
as Lobanov
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Ivan Muradkhanov as Anton, Portnoi's son
The Criminal Quartet (1989) Full Cast / Crew
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Awards
* Cognac Festival du Film Policier (1990) — Audience Award
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Criminal Quartet, The
1989 films
1980s crime action films
1980s Russian-language films
Soviet crime action films
Mosfilm films