24-25 Doesn't Come Back

24-25 Doesn't Come Back (1969) is a Soviet crime detective from the Riga studio, directed by Rostislav Goryaev and Aloiz Brencs — and you can watch online on iFILM. An entire batch of a rare drug, vitofan, vanishes from an experimental clinic.

Major Grigast is convinced it was an inside job. He hands the case to Mara, a young investigator, and the trail pulls her toward a remote border town in the south, where the stolen shipment is meant to slip across the frontier. The further Mara untangles the chain, the clearer it becomes that someone is now tracking her. Zhanna Bolotova, Aleksandr Belyavsky and Gunars Cilinskis head the cast.

It's a solid late-1960s procedural, unhurried, with that cool Baltic restraint the Latvian mysteries of the era were known for. A good watch for fans of vintage Soviet detective films that lean on legwork rather than shootouts. Stream 24-25 Doesn't Come Back (1969) online on iFILM.