Vertical Race
Vertical Race is a 1983 Soviet three-part crime miniseries directed by Aleksander Muratov based on the story of the same name by the Vayner Brothers.
Plot
The action takes place in the USSR in the 1980s. The plot is based on the confrontation between Moscow Criminal Investigations Department inspector Stanislav Tikhonov (Andrey Myagkov) and the thief-recidivist Alexei Dedushkin, nicknamed "Baton" (Valentin Gaft.
Cast
- Andrey Myagkov
- Boris Bityukov
- Dmitry Orlovsky
- Galina Polskikh
- Irina Brazgovka
- Kapitolina Ilyenko
- Nikolay Zasukhin
- Ninel Myshkova
- Serhiy Ponomarenko
- Stanislav Chekan
- Valentin Gaft
- Valery Durov
- Valery Nosik
- Vasily Korzun
- Viktor Miroshnychenko
- Vladimir Druzhnikov
- Vladimir Koval
- Vyacheslav Zholobov
- Yervand Arzumanyan
- Zinayida Dekhtyaryova
More details
| author | Vayner Brothers |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Moscow |
| director | Aleksandr Muratov |
| editor | Elizaveta Rybak |
| genre | crime |
| keywords | criminal investigation fur hat moscow criminal investigations department police officer retired general |
| musicBy | Eugen Doga |
| productionCompany | Dovzhenko Film Studios |