

Film · Mystery, Family, Adventure
The Cutlass (1954)
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





