At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard and soon becomes a chief engineer. It never occurred to anyone that a Soviet intelligence officer was hiding under the guise of a leader showing official zeal. At the decisive moment, when the victorious offensive of the Soviet troops forces the German-Romanian invaders to leave Odessa, on the instructions of the Center, Kraft leaves with them for further work behind enemy lines.
Laimonas Noreika
Kraft
Konstantin Sorokin
Slonov
Vladimir Alekseyenko
Aleksei Stepanovich
Yelena Dobronravova
Nina Slavina
Mikhail Kozakov
Belov
Gurgen Tonunts
Iliescu
Yevgeni Teterin
chief engineer of the ship repair plant
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Kazanskiy
Boris Rudnev
Sakhonin
Lembit Ulfsak
Müller
A Tale of a Chekist is a war, adventure film released in 1969. Directed by Boris Durov, it stars Laimonas Noreika, Konstantin Sorokin, Vladimir Alekseyenko. At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard and soon becomes a chief engineer. It never occurred to anyone that a Soviet intelligence officer was hiding under the guise of a leader showing official zeal. At the decisive moment, when the victorious offensive of the Soviet troops forces the German-Romanian invaders to leave Odessa, on the instructions of the Center, Kraft leaves with them for further work behind enemy lines.
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