The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)

Original title

Трактир на Пятницкой

Directed by

Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Genre

crime film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Moscow, a criminal investigation centers on a tavern where shady characters gather. A detective works to solve a crime connected to the tavern's murky underworld.

suspensefulgrittyatmosphericnoirishtenseintriguingold-fashioned

What happens

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (Russian: Трактир на Пятницкой, romanized: Traktir na Pyatnitskoy) is a 1978 Soviet crime film. The picture is a screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Nikolai Leonov. The film became was one of the leading pictures at the 1978 USSR box-office (5th place), it was seen by 54.1 million viewers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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