"Colonel Zorin's Version"
USSR, 1978
In what Soviet city was not a jewelry store "Emerald" (or "Malachite", "Malachite box").
I have already written in reviews of previous films of the trilogy that all the crimes seemed to me made in the "French style". So in the "Version of Colonel Zorin" carried out a perfectly conceived, bright and daring robbery. Both the organization and logistics of the robbery are made with taste, original, carefully planned and even with some chic. You can clearly see how, in a logical and logical way, one crime necessarily attracts another ("For lousy pebbles, human life was exchanged"). The robbery is followed by the murder of possible witnesses.
However, the criminal, as they say, “pierced” twice.
The first time, trying, as it seems to him, to commit a perfect crime, he with this audacity and “ideality” just leads Zorin to the idea that the crime was committed by someone who had never before been associated with the criminal world.
The second mistake was that the criminal was a typical player. Not only does he commit a crime, he challenges Colonel Zorin and starts a game with him. Being vain and narcissistic, imagining that he committed the perfect crime, he climbs on his own (they say that criminals of this type unconsciously want to be caught), believing that simple and short-sighted, as it seems to him, Zorin will not understand and will not find evidence.
However, the red thread in the film is the idea that the organizer of the robbery will be found, sooner or later. It is very well shown how the noose around the killer tightens more and more. And his appearance is becoming more cynical and tough.
The ending is dramatic. For the excellent performance of Boris Ivanov (a role for him)
7.5 out of 10