83 minutes
11/26/1954
The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
Arkadi Tolbuzin
as Commissar Polevoy
Bruno Frejndlikh
as Nikitskiy
Vladimir Shakhmametiev
as Misha Polyakov
Boris Arakelov
as Genka
Nina Krachkovskaya
as Valya Ivanova
German Khovanov
as Sviridov
Natalya Rashevskaya
as Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
Konstantin Adashevsky
as philatelist
Sergei Filippov
as Filin
Igor Kasparov
as Slava
Valeri Sebekin
as Vovka Baranov
Viktor Brits
as Misha Korovin
Boris Ignatyev
as Borka
Aleksandr Susnin
as Styopa
Vadim Medvedev
as Vladimir Vladimirovich Terentyev