The Cutlass

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The Cutlass

Release Date: November 26, 1954

Year	:	1954
Slogan	:	«Dagger will reveal its secret to those who deserve it...»
Genres	:	Mystery, Family, Adventure
Production Companies	:	Lenfilm
Director	:	Mikhail Shveitser, Vladimir Vengerov
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Writers	:	Anatoli Rybakov, Anatoli Rybakov, Innokenty Gomello
RunTime	:	83 mins.

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.