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Film · Mystery, Family, Adventure

The Cutlass (1954)

★ 4.8 · 6 votesIMDb★ 6.2 · 159 votes1 h 23 minMystery1954

Dagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it...

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.

Director
Mikhail Shveitser, Vladimir Vengerov
Writers
Anatoli Rybakov, Innokenty Gomello
Country
Russia
Language
Russian
Release date
November 26, 1954
Original title
Кортик

The Cutlass was released on November 26, 1954.

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The Cutlass cast

  • Arkadi TolbuzinCommissar Polevoy
  • Bruno FrejndlikhNikitskiy
  • Vladimir ShakhmametievMisha Polyakov
  • Boris ArakelovGenka
  • Nina KrachkovskayaValya Ivanova
  • German KhovanovSviridov
  • Natalya RashevskayaMariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
  • Konstantin AdashevskyPhilatelist
  • Sergei FilippovFilin
  • Igor KasparovSlava
  • Valeri SebekinVovka «Byashka» Baranov
  • Viktor BritsMisha «Besprizornik» Korovin
  • Boris IgnatyevBorka «Zhila»
  • Anatoli Chemodurov
  • Aleksandr Susnin
  • Vadim Medvedev
  • Vladimir Kazarinov
  • Emma Ramzina
  • Aleksandr Vavilov
  • Nelli Barmina
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