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Preliminary Investigation

1979Andrei Razumovsky

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Far Eastern policeman Serezhkin, the hero of the movies "The Master of the Taiga" and "The Missing Witness", is now a captain. This time he investigates a complex case of missing rafts with wood, about the fight loggers with foreman Chubatov and a fire at the timber warehouse. All three cases are in one bundle: the intruders are trying to blame everything on the foreman. But Serezhkin is an experienced detective to figure it all out and save an honest man from prison.

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What is Preliminary Investigation (1979) about?

Far Eastern policeman Serezhkin, the hero of the movies "The Master of the Taiga" and "The Missing Witness", is now a captain. This time he investigates a complex case of missing rafts with wood, about the fight loggers with foreman Chubatov and a fire at the timber warehouse. All three cases are in one bundle: the intruders are trying to blame everything on the foreman. But Serezhkin is an…

Who stars in Preliminary Investigation?

Preliminary Investigation stars Valeriy Zolotukhin (Vasiliy Fokich Serozhkin — kapitan militsii), Yuriy Nazarov (Ivan Gavrilovich Chubatov), Nadezhda Repina (Dar'ya — nevesta Chubatova), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Pavel Boborykin), Viktor Shulgin (dyadya Fedot). The film was directed by Andrei Razumovsky.

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