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.
Cast
Arkadi Tolbuzin
Commissar Polevoy
Bruno Frejndlikh
Nikitskiy
Vladimir Shakhmametiev
Misha Polyakov
Boris Arakelov
Genka
Nina Krachkovskaya
Valya Ivanova
German Khovanov
Sviridov
Natalya Rashevskaya
Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
Konstantin Adashevsky
Philatelist
Sergei Filippov
Filin
Igor Kasparov
Slava
Valeri Sebekin
Vovka Baranov
Viktor Brits
Misha Korovin
Boris Ignatyev
Borka
Aleksandr Susnin
Styopa
Vadim Medvedev
Vladimir Vladimirovich Terentyev
Crew
Mikhail Shveitser
Director
Vladimir Vengerov
Director
Innokenty Gomello
Writer
Anatoli Rybakov
Writer, Novel
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Veniamin Levitin
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Melnikov
First Assistant Director
Lev Makhtin
Assistant Director
Pyotr Nikashin
Executive Producer
Fridrikh Ermler
Producer
Aleksei Fedotov
Production Design
Aleksei Rudyakov
Production Design
Vladimir Burykin
Camera Operator
A. Matskevich
Costume Design
Lev Valter
Sound Director
Boris Mikhaylov
VFX Supervisor
Georgiy Shurkin
VFX Director of Photography
Boris Arapov
Original Music Composer