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Appearing on domestic television screens in the middle of the XNUMXs, the serial film “Liquidation” gained immense popularity. The action of the picture takes place in post-war Odessa. Investigator UGRO David Gotsman is known throughout the city as an uncompromising fighter against crime. Together with his colleagues and a voluntary assistant and childhood friend Fima, a former pickpocket, he investigates a daring robbery of collectors. During the investigation, Gotsman comes across a gang of raiders who are mysteriously connected with the fascist underground and a former member of the Abwehr school nicknamed “Akademik”.
Now the detective will not only have to catch a gang of thugs, but also to figure out this ill-fated Academician, who skillfully disguises himself as “his own”…
For all fans of domestic historical series, we present the top 10 films similar to “Liquidation”.
10 Ashes (2013)
The action of the movieAsh” begins in 1938. In a train compartment, the thief Senka, nicknamed Pepel, and the captain of the Red Army, Igor Petrov, who is threatened with an imminent arrest, accidentally meet. Suddenly, the Red Army soldier decides on a daring act: he exchanges clothes and documents with Ash and steals a “common fund” from him.
Ashes finds himself in a difficult situation, now he is threatened with reprisals, so he decides to temporarily impersonate the Red Army soldier Petrov. Then there will be an arrest, long discussions with a cellmate officer and a rethinking of life values.
Miraculously escaping execution, he meets Igor Petrov’s wife and together with her decides to start a new life…
9. Penal battalion (2004)
Penal battalions for a long time were a “blank spot” in the history of the Great Patriotic War. Penalties were thrown into attacks on the most difficult sectors of the front. They were not always supplied with ammunition and provisions. Mortality in such battalions was very high. In front they were mowed down by enemy bullets, from the rear – by machine guns of detachments.
This picture tells about the dramatic fate of the penalized, at the cost of whose lives victories were won in the most difficult period of the Great Patriotic War …
8. The meeting place cannot be changed (1979)
The action of the legendary painting “Meeting place can not be Changedtakes place in 1945. Former front-line soldier Vladimir Sharapov enters the service of the MUR. He has to practice to comprehend all the subtleties of the work of the operative.
His mentor in this matter was an experienced detective and a thunderstorm of the Moscow underworld Gleb Zhiglov. Together they have to unravel the mysterious crime of a young woman who, by coincidence, helped them get on the trail of the dangerous Black Cat gang…
7. Apostle (2008)
Pavel and Peter Istomin are twins. They look alike like two drops of water, but their lives have developed completely differently. After the arrest of his father and the death of his mother in exile, Peter became a professional bear thief, who can break into any safe.
During the war, he was recruited by the Germans to the Abwehr school, but during the next assignment, with the release to the Soviet rear, he was killed by an NKVD officer.
Pavel became an ordinary school teacher. He has a quiet character and is very far from military affairs. But, one day his life will change dramatically when an NKVD officer Khromov wants to pass Pavel off as the deceased Peter and introduce him into the Abwehr school as an agent “Apostle“….
6. Black Wolves (2011)
Action picture “Black wolves” takes place in Yaroslavl in the early 50s of the twentieth century. The protagonist, former UGRO investigator Pavel Khromov, was unfairly sentenced to eight years in prison.
Returning home after the colony, Pavel learns that the Black Wolves, a gang that keeps the whole city in fear, are involved in the murder of his sister. At the scene of their crimes, the thugs leave a wolf’s head.
Khromov decides to do everything to catch the criminals and regain his good name.
5. Executioner (2015)
Plot of the film “Executioner” is based on the true story of the infamous Tonka the machine gunner, who executed about 1500 people during the war.
In the mid-60s, during the celebration of May 9, on the outskirts of Moscow, the body of a seventeen-year-old school graduate Petya Yakovlev is found – a mysterious killer shoots him through both eyes. An experienced MID investigator, Ivan Cherkasov, is alarmed by the extreme cruelty of the crime, as well as the fact that this murder was the beginning of a whole series.
During the investigation, Cherkasov learns that Petya was preparing a surprise for his aunt Raisa, a former partisan. He wrote a note about her in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. In the course of preparing material about her valiant past, the boy looked for her former brother-soldiers and filmed them on a movie camera. From this, the detective concludes that the strings of crime stretch during the Great Patriotic War …
4. On the other side of the wolves (2002)
The plot of the pictureBeyond the wolves” takes place in the first year after the victory in the Great Patriotic War. A former front-line soldier is sent to a provincial town to work in the police.
At this time, local residents are shocked by a series of brutal and mysterious murders. Rumors begin to spread that a real werewolf has appeared somewhere nearby: during the day he puts on the guise of a man, and at night – his wolf essence requires new victims. Everything is under suspicion.
3. Forgotten (2011)
Action picture “Forgotten” is set in 1949. Former front-line soldier and investigator Sergei Gastev retires, having come face to face with the problem of bureaucratic lawlessness. Attempts to bring them to clean water almost end for him in the dock.
After that, Gastev decides to become a simple teacher of Roman law at the university of a provincial town. On the love front, the hero is also not going smoothly: he has to hide his connection with the Komsomol leader Lyudmila Mishina …
Suddenly, a small town is shaken by a series of daring crimes. Gastev, as a very experienced investigator, was also involved in the disclosure of them. As partners, he is given a young rural district policeman, Ilya Ropnya.
However, trying to unravel one case, the detectives accidentally attack the trail of another – a large-scale financial scam…
2. Thief (1997)
The action of the cult picture “Thief” begins in the autumn of 1952. Six-year-old Sanka and his beautiful young mother named Katya meet a stately military man named Tolyan on the train. Sanya’s mother and their casual acquaintance start an affair, and together they begin to live as one family.
Katya is happy – finally, in this difficult time, she, a widow, will have a husband, and her little son will have a father. However, in reality, this handsome and courageous officer turns out to be a seasoned thief who needs his family only as a cover…
1. Marina Grove (2012)
MUR employee Konstantin Troshin, returning from the front, learns that he no longer serves in the police. The reason for this was a conflict with a powerful official from the KGB. However, Troshin cannot live without service in the authorities, so he agrees to work as a district police officer in the most criminal district of the capital – Maryina Grove. Due to certain circumstances, Troshin settled in a communal apartment, here.
Being in the thick of the criminal world of Moscow and closely converging with its inhabitants, Troshin skillfully reveals the most intricate crimes. However, not the capture of criminals is the main task of Troshin. The hero sets himself a more ambitious goal: to eradicate crime itself. Having tried on the role of a simple district police officer, he gradually gets used to the image of an arbitrator …