A rather original example of a Soviet detective.
The parallelity of the action in two time intervals and the smooth transitions from Paracelsus to Muromtsev create such a pleasant surreality of apolitical perestroika cinema.
Somewhere the policeman is poisoned with an unopened tranquilizer, and once Gugenheim convinces gray contemporaries-citizens that bloodletting is not the best method of treating most diseases.
The story, of course, turns out to be strange - a brave policeman investigates theft from thieves, and the bad guys seem to win in the end, but not everything is so clear. Good characters die, which will become bad and not at all clear.
It's an interesting slice of life. The eternal struggle of good with evil, truth with delusion becomes the main motif of the series, this invites you to look at the events taking place in it in both eras from some distance. It's a very interesting effect.