The plot is based on genuine events: a tendency to abandon subversive activities and surrender of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary underground, coroner general Y. Tyutyunnik. The young Chekist Sashko Kovalchuk infiltrates the Kiev counter-revolutionary underground.
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Aleksandr Solovyov
Also in
Arbiter
The Green Van
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Known for
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Aleksandr Pavlovskiy
Also in
A Child by November
The Lion's Grave
Boris Kryzhanovsky
Mikhail Byaly
Vladimir Pankov
Kostiantyn Stepankov
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Ashik Kerib
Maksim Dunaevskiy
Yuriy Novikov
Volodymyr Volkov
Nikolai Ivanovich Gubar
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Waves of the Black Sea
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Evgeniy Sherstobitov
Evgeny Sherstobitov
Aleksandr Pavlovskiy Director · Evgeniy Sherstobitov Writer Borys Kryzhanivskyi Writer
First release August 31, 1986 · Produced in Russia · Original title На острие меча
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Russia
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Original title
На острие меча
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 31, 1986
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No release date listed for United States.
Russia
September 1, 1987
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