In this excerpt, Igor Kvasha as Lagutin, a gang boss, adresses Oleg Tabakov as Communist "art-detective" Ovchinnikov with eternal issues of life, splin, soul and death.
This Soviet movie is about a quest for lost exquisite art collection from some Russian noble family in 1920, also starring Andrey Mironov, Yevgeniy Yevstigneev and Spartak Mishulin. One of the key features is embeded animation by eminent Yuri Norshtein.
