The Criminal Quartet

1989 film
  • Nikolai Karachentsov
  • Vladimir Steklov
  • Boris Shcherbakov
  • Vladimir Eryomin
  • Semyon Farada
CinematographyKonstantin RyzhovEdited byEleonora PraksinaMusic byAleksandr Mikhaylov
Production
company
Mosfilm
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
85 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Criminal Quartet (Russian: Криминальный квартет, romanized: Kriminalnyy kvartet) is a 1989 Soviet action film directed by Aleksandr Muratov.[1][2][3]

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.[4]

Cast

  • Nikolai Karachentsov as Marat
  • Vladimir Steklov as Semyon Portnoi, Investigator
  • Boris Shcherbakov as Pyotr Sarayev
  • Vladimir Yeryomin as Nikolay Larin
  • Semyon Farada as Levkoev
  • Oleg Anofriev as Matvey Iosifovich Feldman
  • Alexey Sheynin as factory chief technologist
  • Yuriy Katin-Yartsev as Semyon Moiseevich
  • Nele Savichenko-Klimene as Lyusya, Portnoi's wife[5]
  • Boris Klyuyev as factory chief engineer
  • Lev Prygunov as Lev
  • Yuriy Nazarov as Dmitry, police officer
  • Igor Yasulovich as Shakalov
  • Vadim Spiridonov as Lobanov
  • Ivan Muradkhanov as Anton, Portnoi's son[6]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Борис Щербаков: смерть Николая Караченцова — это большой удар
  2. ^ «Хороший товарищ и отзывчивый друг»: Щербаков об актере Николае Караченцове
  3. ^ Нагиев бросил Александрову ради Алферовой
  4. ^ Криминальный квартет at the kinopoisk.ru
  5. ^ Kirill Razlogov. Первый век нашего кино: энциклопедия — ISBN 5-98601-027-2
  6. ^ The Criminal Quartet (1989) Full Cast / Crew

External links

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