German title: Der geheimnisvolle Dolch Russian title: Кортик Original title: Кортик
Adventure movie – USSR Production year: 1954 Movie length: 87 minutes
Director: Vladimir Vengerov (Владимир Венгеров), Mikhail Shveitser (Михаил (Моисей) Швейцер), Writer: Anatoli Rybakov (Анатолий Рыбаков), Innokenti Gomello (Иннокентий Гомелло), Cinematograph: Veniamin Levitin (Вениамин Левитин), Music: Boris Arapov (Борис Арапов),
Movie description:
This first chapter in a made-for-Russian-television mini-series, followed by »Bronzovaya ptitsa« and »Poslednyeye leto detstva«.
Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It’s up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery and crack a military code.