Village Detective | |
Director: | Ivan Lukinsky |
Producer: | Mikhail Kapustin |
Starring: | Mikhail Zharov Tatyana Pelttser Natalya Sayko Lidiya Smirnova |
Music: | Anatoly Lepin |
Cinematography: | Anatoly Buravchikov Igor Klebanov Vladimir Rapoport |
Editing: | Ksenia Blinova |
Studio: | Gorky Film Studio |
Runtime: | 87 minutes |
Country: | Soviet Union |
Language: | Russian |
Village Detective (Russian: Деревенский детектив|Derevensky detektiv) is a 1969 Soviet crime comedy film directed by Ivan Lukinsky and based on the novella of the same name by Vil Lipatov. Lyrical detective lives of rural local policeman Aniskin.
Later on the screens came two sequels: Aniskin and Fantomas (1973)[1] and Aniskin Again (1978).[2]
An accordion is stolen from a village club. For the collective farm, where an accordion is worth more than a good cow, this is a "crime of the century". When Aniskin is assigned to solve the crime, his suspicion falls on a man in love with a local store saleswoman.
The film won the award for Best Comedy at the All-Union Film Festival in Minsk.[3]