Investigation by ZnATOKI (Case No. 21: Without Knife and Knuckles) online

Investigation by ZnATOKI (Case No. 21: Without Knife and Knuckles)- Episode 22, from a series of detective films about the work of MUR detectives, directed by Vyacheslav Brovkin in 1988.

Production: film studio "Central Television", USSR, 1988

Filmmaker: V. Brovkin

Scriptwriter: O. Lavrova, A. Lavrov

Starring: G.Martynyuk, L.Kanevsky, E.Lezhdei, A. Belyavsky, L. Fedoseyeva-Shukshina.

Duration: 2 серии — 120 минут

The plot of the movie Investigation led ZnatoKi (Case № 21: Without a knife and knuckles):

The movie takes place in the late 80s, during the so-called perestroika in the USSR. The management of the police begins to receive regular complaints from residents of one of the capital's districts about the actions, or to be more accurate, the complete inaction of DEZ № 23, the head of which was a certain Maxim Musnitsky.

Having checked the information from the tenants, the detectives were horrified, because here the case smelled not the usual for that time sloppiness and mismanagement, and theft of public funds in especially large amounts.

The money allocated from the budget for the repair of housing stock and improvement of adjacent territories was misused by Musnitsky, while receiving personal material benefits. But the worst thing is that Musnitsky managed to get himself high patrons, who used various methods to pressure the investigation.

It was the first time that even seasoned ZnaToKs were confronted with such well-organized criminal activity. In addition, Musnitsky was not afraid to use the criminal element to intimidate witnesses....