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Kortik

1974 · 1 season

A gentle old-fashioned adventure where three youngsters chase a coded secret, mixing wartime gravity with wholesome youthful sleuthing.

Created by
Nikolai Kalinin
Genres
Action & adventure, Family
Starring
Sergei Shevkunenko, Vladimir Dichkovsky, Igor Shulzhenko
Overview
A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery.

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Created by
Nikolai Kalinin
Genres
Action & adventure, Family
Starring
Sergei Shevkunenko, Vladimir Dichkovsky, Igor Shulzhenko
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • mystery
    • friendship
    • coming-of-age
    • loyalty
    • war
    Places
    • small town
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    family
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action4
    Horror1
    Humour3
    Realism6
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness3
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight4

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    Details

    Genres
    action & adventure, family
    Created by
    Nikolai Kalinin
    Written by
    Anatoli Rybakov
    Starring
    Sergei Shevkunenko, Vladimir Dichkovsky, Igor Shulzhenko, Mikhail Golubovich, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Zoya Fyodorova, Leonid Kmit, Natalya Chemodurova
    Music
    Stanislav Pozhlakov
    Cinematography
    Igor Remishevsky
    Length
    1 seasons, 3 episodes
    Network
    Central Television USSR
    Country
    Soviet Union
    Languages
    Russian

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