The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed Russian , translit.Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya is a 1979 Soviet fivepart television miniseries directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. The series achieved the status of a cult film in the USSR, and along with Seventeen Moments of Spring became a part of popular culture with several generations of russophone TV viewers. The series stars singersongwriter Vladimir Vysotsky in one of his final screen appearances his death at the age of 42 came less than a year after the films release. Soviet screen and stage legends Sergey Yursky, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Zinovy Gerdt, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, and Leonid Kuravlev also appear in the film.

The film is set in postWWII Moscow. Lieutenant Vladimir Sharapov Vladimir Konkin is a young reconnaissance officer and a decorated war hero who has just returned from the war and is assigned to peacetime service with the famous MUR Moscow Department of Criminal Investigations. There he becomes part of an elite detective team led by the brilliant, tough, nononsense Captain Gleb Zheglov Vysotsky. The duo becomes embroiled in two seemingly separate investigations that of the murder of young aspiring actress Larisa Gruzdeva, and the hunt for a vicious gang of armed robbers that calls itself Black Cat and constantly manages to evade capture.While suspicion in Gruzdevas murder initially falls on her estranged husband Dr. Gruzdev Yursky, it gradually becomes apparent that the two cases are connected, as a Black Cat mobster Fox Aleksandr Belyavsky is implicated in the murder. As a result of Zheglovs successful highstakes operation to capture Fox, Sharapov inadvertently finds himself undercover at the Black Cat hideout, sparring with the gangs menacing leader The Hunchback Dzhigarkhanyan. What ensues is arguably one of Soviet televisions most memorable and suspenseful finales. ........

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