Synopsis
Case No. 306 (1956) is a Soviet detective thriller by Anatoly Rybakov, free to watch online on iFILM. One of the earliest police procedurals in Russian cinema: a Moscow street at dusk, a hit-and-run, and an ordinary-looking road accident that opens out into a case of espionage.
An elderly woman is struck down, and moments later the officer who tries to stop the car is killed too. The victim carries no papers and lies unconscious, leaving almost nothing to go on — except a chance witness, the young owner of an expensive car. The whole investigation hinges on whether she grasps how much her testimony matters, because beneath this routine crash, foreign intelligence agents slowly come into view. Boris Bityukov and Tatyana Piletskaya lead, alongside the much-loved Mark Bernes. A tight, lean eighty-minute picture with no padding and a genuinely taut finish. For anyone who enjoys old-school Soviet crime films: stream Case No. 306 (1956) online on iFILM.
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