Last (Movie)

In April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Smirnov, who had just left the hospital, arrived in Moscow . He returns to his native home, meets with people from his former, pre-war life. In places where all the city’s social life is concentrated — in markets, in restaurants — those types of people reign who are best able to adapt to the difficult life in a war-ravaged country. These are thieves, speculators, street scammers and other criminal elements. People with disabilities of war, demobilized front-line soldiers are also forced to adapt to this life.

At first, it seems that the young lieutenant Smirnov accepts the new rules of the game. The nearest railway station attracts local thieves - there are few guards, and many trains with food and other valuable goods pass through the station every day. And to cope with the bandits, you need a person who is able, as a local resident, to get close to the gang and identify its main participants.

In the end, the most difficult thing is to find and neutralize the cruel and dangerous leader of the gang, hiding under the guise of someone else, ready without hesitation to sacrifice the life of his accomplices or the life of an innocent person in general in order to avoid justice. The war on the front line ends, but the war on crime in the rear is just beginning, and in this new war, demobilization is something that you can think of only in the very least ...

Subsequently, on the basis of the script written for the film, Anatoly Stepanov created the novel of the same name, " Last ". This kind of novelization of the film was the first book in a series of detective stories about police officer Alexander Smirnov, written and published in the 1980s and 1990s.

• Vasily Mishchenko - Alexander Smirnov, demobilized senior lieutenant
• Sergey Sazontiev - Sergey Vasilievich Odintsov, war invalid
• Vasily Funtikov - Alik (Alka, Alexander), childhood friend Smirnov
• Lev Borisov - Semenych, a speculator thief
• Rimma Korosteleva - Larisa, sister of Alik
• Gennady Korolkov - police lieutenant colonel, head of the anti-bandit group
• Sergey Priselkov - Petro, a soldier trading in the market
• Natalia Feklenko - Klava, Odintsova's roommate
• Leo Zolotukhin - Ivan Pavlovich, father of Larisa and Alik
• Svetlana Konovalova - mother of Smirnov, a railwaywoman
• Sergey Balabanov - bandit Arthur - "Pooh"
• Valentin Kulik - clothing speculator in the market
• Anton Tabakov - assistant to the clothing speculator
• Vladimir Ferapontov - Apollinaria, waiter
• In the episodes: Alexander Lebedev , Nikolai Malikov , Vladimir Marenkov , Stanislav Mikhin , Alexander Ryzhkov, Vladimir Rovinsky and others.

• Director: Andrey Ladynin
• Script writer: Anatoly Stepanov
• Operator: Victor Sheinin
• Set Designer: Alexander Kuznetsov
• Composer: Yuri Saulsky
• Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography
• Conductor: Konstantin Krimets
• Costume Designer: Natalya Ivanova