A Vintage Detective Story

A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language Russian

Gneres Drama , Mystery , TV Movie

Production Company Central Television USSR

Release Date 17 April 1982

88 mins

Cast

Sergei Yursky Slinkton / Auguste Dupin

Yuri Bogatyryov Samson / Auguste Dupin's Friend

Vsevolod Larionov Prefect

Tamara Chernova Noble Lady

Aleksandr Shvorin Minister

Andrey Kharitonov Beckwith (Melton)

Irina Ponomaryova Margaret

Crew

Director

Pavel Reznikov

Writer

Pavel Reznikov

Cinematography

Vyacheslav Efimov

Original Writers

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickens

Art Direction

Vladimir Lykov

Music

Igor Yakushenko