Colonel Kostenko (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) and his new assistant, young Lieutenant Tedeeva, are heading to Magadan to investigate an extraordinary murder. The handwriting of the criminal leads them to a similar case at the end of the war. In order to identify a dangerous repeat offender, investigators have no choice but to look for a connection between events and traces of his crimes - in the past and present…
While digging one of the many tunnels for the Moscow metro, Soviet workers unearth ruins of a dungeon. The site is closed, the metro tunnel is diverted, and amidst the bustle no one notices the tunnel workers’ foreman pocketing a little ‘souvenir’ – a book-sized frame made of precious metals featuring an inscription in an unknown language. Decades later, the foreman’s grandson Ilya, who works as a courier, discovers the ancient relic in a pile of old junk. Oblivious to the true value of the family heirloom, he soon learns about it from a mysterious stranger. The relic is the key to the secret location of the priceless ancient library that belonged to Ivan the Terrible. What Ilya doesn’t know is that the search for the lost library has been going on for centuries, and now very powerful people are after him. Ilya and the mysterious stranger decide to try their luck in finding the library.
March 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scant testimony of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time they leave portraits of the dead at the crime scene. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Death's Head", and its leader was called an Artist.
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.
Actor, director, screenwriter, producer. In 1980 he graduated from the acting department of GITIS named after Lunacharsky (Tabakov's workshop). He worked in various Moscow theaters (Sovremennik, a studio theater under the direction of Tabakov). In 1991 he staged the play The Inspector General, receiving the STD prize for the best performance of the year. In the same year he organized a private film company. At one time he worked as the chief director of the Theater under the leadership of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. As a director, he shot several television series. He was married to the popular theater and cinema actress Irina Metlitskaya. They had two sons: Nikita and Pyotr.