The Thief (film 1994)

The beginning of the 1990s. The provincial, orphanage, pretty and naive girl Luba ends up in Moscow, where she is left without a livelihood. There is no housing, no work, no money for a return ticket. And so, she meets her handsome prince - a tall handsome major by the name of Valery, who takes her to his beautiful castle and to heavenly life, where you do not have to beg and spend the night at the train stations. But Valery deceives Luba, puts a gold bracelet in her handbag, and the next day he tells the police about the alleged theft of the bracelet and expensive watches from his father’s collection, which he actually “drove” to the bandits . It would seem that the fate of the girl is a foregone conclusion - the court , term , stage , prison . But her case is taken for free by a novice lawyer named Oleg, and a romance is struck between him and Anyone.

• Olga Rodina - Lyuba
• Gennady Nazarov - Oleg, lawyer
• Andrey Barilo - Valery
• Pyotr Velyaminov - father of Valery
• Victor Pavlov - prosecutor
• Vladimir Kashpur - a listener in court
• Valentina Talyzina - judge
• Mikhail Mamaev - the leader of the gang
• Sergey Galkin - bandit Kamenyuk (Mammoth)
• Boris Novikov - people's assessor
• Natalia Egorova - a female mafia
• Lydia Savchenko - people's assessor
• Vera Ivleva - cleaning lady at the law office
• Yuri Yakovlev - (narrator)
• Hmayak Hakobyan - Caucasian at the airport
• Konstantin Chepurin - seller in a tent
• Emil Braginsky - Perchikov, attorney (uncredited)

• Script writer: Emil Braginsky
• Director: Valery Uskov , Vladimir Krasnopolsky
• Operator: Viktor Yakushev
• Artist: Vladimir Donskov

• Kinotavr, 1995: nomination for the Grand Prix of the Grand Competition

• "Thief" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian cinema"