Kortik
“Dagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it...”
Synopsis
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.
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Edited by Yevgeniya MakhankovaShot by Veniamin LevitinScored by Boris ArapovDesigned by Aleksey Fedotov
Also known as
- Der geheimnisvolle Dolchde
- La dagaes
- La Daguefr
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19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Arkadi Tolbuzin
as Commissar Polevoy
Bruno Frejndlikh
as Nikitskiy
Volodia Shakhmametiev
as Misha Poliakov
Boris Arakelov
as Genka
Nina Krachkovskaya
as Valia Ivanova
German Khovanov
as Sviridov
Natalya Rashevskaya
as Terentieva Mariya Gavrilovna
Konstantin Adashevsky
as Philatelist
Sergey Filippov
as Filin
Igor Kasparov
as Slava
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2Other crew
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