The Green Van

Directed by Aleksandr Pavlovskiy

With Dmitriy Kharatyan, Boryslav Brondukov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Aleksandr Solovyov and Regimantas Adomaitis

It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Alyosha Patrikeyv, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. He is assigned to fight illegal booz production in a small village of Severinovka. When he goes on a chase after a horse thief Krasavchik, Alyosha finds himself up against Cherven - the most dangerous criminal in Odessa.