Stanislav GOVORUKHIN
Станислав ГОВОРУХИН
Stanislav GOVOROUKHINE
USSR, 1979, 362mn 
The Meeting Place Can't Be Changed
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Место встречи изменить нельзя

 

 38 rue Petrovka

 Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya

Russian subtitle : Петровка, 38
 
Directed by : Stanislav GOVORUKHIN (Станислав ГОВОРУХИН)
Writing credits : Georgi VAYNER (Георгий ВАЙНЕР), Arkadi VAYNER (Аркадий ВАЙНЕР)
 
Cast
Vladimir VYSOTSKY (Владимир ВЫСОЦКИЙ) ...Gleb Zheglov
Vladimir KONKIN (Владимир КОНКИН) ...Volodia
Sergey YURSKY (Сергей ЮРСКИЙ) ...Ivan
Aleksandr BELYAVSKY (Александр БЕЛЯВСКИЙ) ...Foks
Aleksandr ABDULOV (Александр АБДУЛОВ)
Armen DZHIGARKHANYAN (Армен ДЖИГАРХАНЯН)
Yevgeni EVSTIGNEYEV (Евгений ЕВСТИГНЕЕВ)
Natalia FATEYEVA (Наталья ФАТЕЕВА)
Leonid KURAVLYOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ)
Vladlen LOGINOV (Владлен ЛОГИНОВ)
Viktor PAVLOV (Виктор ПАВЛОВ)
Natalya_2 PETROVA (Наталия_2 ПЕТРОВА)
Yevgeni SHUTOV (Евгений ШУТОВ)
Svetlana SVETLICHNAYA (Светлана СВЕТЛИЧНАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Leonid BURLAKA (Леонид БУРЛАКА)
Production design : Valentin GIDULYANOV (Валентин ГИДУЛЯНОВ)
Music : Yevgeni GEVORGIAN (Евгений ГЕВОРГЯН)
Sound : Anatoli NETREBENKO (Анатолий НЕТРЕБЕНКО)
Editing : Valentina OLEINIK (Валентина ОЛЕЙНИК)
Production : Odessa Film Studios
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
One of the most popular TV miniseries in its home country, The Meeting Place Can't Be Changed is a police procedural set in post-World War II Moscow. Vladimir Sharapov (Vladimir Konkin), recently discharged from the Red Army, joins the homicide bureau of the local police. Sharapov, who tends to do everything by the book, often clashes with seasoned police detective Gleb Zheglov (Vladimir Vysotsky). The latter is so convinced that "a thief's place is in prison" that he does not stop at planting evidence himself if necessary. The two men learn to work together during a murder investigation that leads them to a gang of criminals known as "the Black Cat."
Yuri German, www.allmovie.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Il ne faut jamais changer le lieu d'un rendez-vous (1979) User Reviews [Critiques du film 38 rue Petrovka, 1979, Stanislav GOVOROUKHINE], IMDb, 2023
Les dix plus grandes séries soviétiques, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Рецензии : Место встречи изменить нельзя [Critiques du film 38 rue Petrovka, 1979, Stanislav GOVOROUKHINE], Kinopoisk, 2022
RUSSIA BEYOND : Les six meilleurs films et séries soviétiques de détectives, d'espionnage et d'aventure, Nikolaï CHEVTCHENKO, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2024
- Another Russia. Film Festival, Paris (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022

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