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The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers

Korona Rossiyskoy imperii, ili snova neulovimye

Soviet Union

1971

134 Min
Color
Russian
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DIR Edmond Keosayan

SCR Aleksandr Chervinsky, Edmond Keosayan

DP Mikhail Ardabyevsky

CAST Mikhail Metyolkin, Viktor Kosykh, Vasili Vasilyev, Valentina Kurdyukova, Ivan Pereverzev, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Arkadi Tolbuzin, Rolan Bykov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrei Fajt, Edmond Keosayan, Grigori Shpigel, Nina Agapova, Yakov Lents

ED L. Dzhanazyan

PROD DES Savet Agoyan, Levan Shengeliya

MUSIC Yan Frenkel

SOUND Artashes Vanetsyan

Synopsis

The Elusive Avengers, a posse of young Red Partisans, including Valerka, a former schoolboy, Yashka, a devil-may-care gypsy, and two orphan siblings, Danka and his sister Ksanka, become Cheka agents after successfully stealing the map in The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers. They wish to abandon their service and study in a university, but the young Soviet Republic needs them again. A group of White emigres, influenced by a scheming French politician, Monsieur Duc, wants to crown a new Tsar in Paris. Two obvious frauds compete for the Russian throne in exile, but they want to be crowned with the real Crown of the Russian emperors!

The White emigres form a team that will infiltrate Soviet Union and steal the crown from the museum. Old “friends” from the previous movies, Ataman Burnash, Stabs Captain Ovechkin and Colonel Kudasov, prepare to enter USSR along with the notorious thief Naryshkin, a “specialist” who will steal the crown. However, Kudasov tries to double-cross his accomplices and is wounded by a gunshot. Ovechkin becomes the team’s leader.

The emigres return to the USSR, but Naryshkin is accidentally arrested by police. The Cheka doesn’t want them to flee, and Yashka, disguised as a pick-pocket, is put in Naryshkin’s cell and arranges his escape. He gains Naryshkin’s trust and enters the perpetrators gang. They enter the museum at night, only to find the crown stolen by Ovechkin alone!

Ovechkin flees Moscow by train, Ksanka pursues him, but loses the trail when he hides in Odessa catacombs. He is waiting to be picked up by a ship and successfully escape with the crown. Danka and Valerka immediately go to Paris, where they learn that Monsieur Duc didn’t want to use the crown for coronation. Instead, Duc wanted to sell it for millions of dollars. After Kudasov tells that, he is shot by his former aide, Lieutenant Perov, who now works for Monsieur Duc along with Ovechkin. —Wikipedia

Director

Original

Edmond Keosayan

Edmond Gareginovich Keosayan (Russian: Эдмонд Гарегинович Кеосаян; Armenian: Էդմոնդ Քյոսայան; 9 October 1936 – 21 April 1994) was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician.1952-54 – worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56 – studied in Plekhanov Moscow Institute of Economy. 1956-58 – studied in Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, worked as a compere. 1964 – graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK (E.Dzigan’s master class). Since 1964 – director at Mosfilm Studio. Occasionally worked at Armenfilm Studio. He was also a compere of the Soviet State Variety Orchestra. His films are mainly in the Armenian and Russian languages. —Wikipedia 

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