The Criminal Quartet

An investigator goes after a case of corruption. There are large scale thefts at a local shoe factory. The man brings them to light. Behind the business stands an organised gang. The gang picks a way to stop him. They kidnap the investigator’s small son. The man is caught at once between two tasks. He wants both to get his son back and to close the case. The official channels do not move fast enough. So he goes to his old friends. All three are people he has known for years. Two of them are police officers and one is a journalist. The four decide to act together. The plan they make does not follow the book. Nikolai Karachentsov and Vladimir Steklov appear in the eighty five minute film, a Soviet production Aleksandr Muratov finished in 1990.