I, The Investigator

I, The Investigator (1972) is a Georgian crime mystery you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Georgy Kalatozishvili and led by Vakhtang Kikabidze, it opens on the Georgian Military Road, where a badly wounded man is found and a quiet detective story begins.

The case lands on the desk of investigator Georgy Mikeladze, a man who privately thinks of himself as unlucky yet takes the work dead seriously. The victim turns out to be a ship's navigator who had been breaking in a brand-new Volga on his holiday — until the car was stolen. The knot only tightens from there: one robbery links to another, the trail points to a gang preying on cash couriers, and the search eventually carries Mikeladze north to Tallinn.

This is a patient, old-school Soviet procedural that trusts logic and character over gunfire, soaked in the textures of the early 1970s. Kikabidze plays it low-key and likable. Stream I, The Investigator (1972) online on iFILM.