Starring

Aleksey Barabash, Aleksey Bargman, Dmitriy Gotsdiner, Sergey Barkovskiy, Zara, Varvara Pavlova, Aleksey Kashnikov, Oleg Mendelson, Valeriy Dyachenko, Aleksandr Bolshakov, Valeriy Ivchenko, Dmitriy Rudkov, Ilya Oleynikov, Vladimir Kolganov, Irina Yureva, Irina Sokolova, Mariya Leonova, Roza Tsyganova

Written by

Vladimir Akimov

Camera

Aleksandr Degtyarev

Music by

Aleksandr Zhurbin

Directed by

Ernest Yasan

Production

“MakDos”

Producer

Vladimir Dostal

The Life And Death Of Lyonka Panteleev

Crime/Political Mystery

(2006)

1921. Soviet Russia lies in ruins. The government has no money to buy food for the famine-struck population. And so, Petrograd chekists devise a plan to replenish the state treasury with the help of... robberies to be committed by a cheka-controlled gang. The gang is headed by Alexei Pantelkin, a Petrograd transport chekist. The gang of Lyonka Panteleyev (the name under which Pantelkin operated) was widely known and much feared by emerging new economic policy capitalists in Petrograd. But when another group of checkists tracks the Panteleyev gang down, the top cheka officials order Pantelkin’s arrest and liquidation to avoid publicity...