The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)
Original title: Место встречи изменить нельзя
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed is a 1979 Russian-language mystery series by Stanislav Govorukhin. It stars Vladimir Vysotsky, Vladimir Konkin and Sergei Yursky.
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...
Cast
- Vladimir Vysotsky as Gleb Zheglov
- Vladimir Konkin as Vladimir Sharapov
- Sergei Yursky as Gruzdev
- Viktor Pavlov as Levchenko
- Natalya Fateyeva as Sobolevskaya
- Leonid Kuravlyov as "Smoked"
- Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Nadya
- Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Yevgeni Fox
- Evgeniy Evstigneev as Ruchnikov
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as "Hunchback"
- Natalya Danilova
- Valeriya Zaklunnaya as Klavdiya