The Master of Taiga

In a village in the taiga, a place where everyone can see everyone, a shop is robbed. There this counts as very nearly impossible. Suspicion settles on one of the men who float timber down the river. But Vasily Seryozhkin, the young district officer, sees inconsistencies and will not let the file go. The film builds a crime story not in a large city but in a place where nobody can disappear. That everyone knows everyone makes the investigation easier and impossible at once. The conditions of working in the forest make up the ground. Valeriy Zolotukhin and Vladimir Vysotsky appear in Vladimir Nazarov’s seventy nine minute Soviet film, completed in 1969.