A daring robbery of a collector History. In terms of the welfare of people in the USSR, the Baltic republics have always been in the lead. Even filmmakers came there to make special films about foreign life. However, despite this “foreignness”, crime in the Baltics was slightly less than in other Soviet republics, but not much. And sometimes it happened that the resonance acquired the all-Union. For example, the famous attack on collectors of the 74th year, which became the reason not only for a newspaper essay in a popular newspaper, but also for the creation of a documentary shown on the CG. This story began on New Year’s Eve 1974, when two residents of Riga – 32-year-old taxi driver Krasovsky and his 23-year-old friend Mesis – immediately after the chimney fight on the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower sat down to discuss their future attack on collectors. The initiator of this idea was Krasovsky. Working in a taxi park, he traveled a couple of times in his service car to the city to transport collectors (in those years, the collection service did not have its own cars, and she rented them in taxi parks). During these trips, Krasovsky became convinced that the transportation of money was extremely careless, and he decided to take advantage of this.
His plan was simple, but original. The attackers had to know in advance the name of the taxi driver, who on X-Day had to carry collectors (this case was taken over by Krasovsky), lure him out of town and kill him. Krasovsky took his place in the car, and Mesis had to hide in the trunk. At the last point of collecting money, the robbers unexpectedly attacked the collectors, took possession of the money and hid in the same car. The car, along with the bodies of collectors, was then supposed to be drowned in Daugava. Mesis liked the plan. It couldn't have been otherwise. Krasovsky was his idol, he almost looked into his mouth. And with the program words Krasovsky Mesis agreed unconditionally. And it was said, "If you live like this, Mesis, you will squander your life ugly and boring." In life one must burn and take risks, perish and be reborn. Take a big penny and don’t feel sorry for it. You and I will take a big piece, go far, far away, where no one will find us. And start a new life. However, to implement the plan without a hitch and hitch at Riga gangsters failed. (Fyodor Rzzakov)
Tale. In 1977, the famous Soviet, Latvian writer and screenwriter Andris Kohlbergs wrote a novel called ' Criminal case for three days'. In Russian, the novel was published in 1979 under the title ' Three-Day Detective'. The novel is written in the genre of socio-psychological detective. The dynamic plot of the crime and the investigation is intertwined with the panorama of social life: the “inside of society” of Soviet Latvia, the psychology of Soviet criminal crime are shown. The action takes place in Riga in the summer of 1973. An armed robbery was committed in a knitwear store, 86,000 rubles were stolen. One collector is seriously injured, the other is killed. The criminals fled in a taxi car. The police are starting an investigation. The task force is led by Colonel Conrad Ulf, assisted by Deputy Captain Alvis Graud and ROVD Inspector Captain Juris Garanch.
Witness-retired Nikolai Golubovsky allegedly recognized the criminal who dealt a fatal blow to one of the collectors - as if it was a familiar watchmaker. An intensive search begins for a watchmaker who left Riga on the day of the robbery. However, the trail turns out to be false, the police in the person of Captain Garanche is only wasting time in this direction. The novel by Andris Kohlbergs attracted the reader not only with its dynamic plot and detective intrigue. The social and psychological aspects of the story were also of interest. Through tragic images with great frankness touched on the psychology of criminals. The concentration of antisocial figures was compensated by positive images of police officers. Criticism of the "bourgeois" and "materialism" was conducted in the novel with high artistic and deep psychologism (especially on the dark images of Langermanis, Kozind and Golubovsky) - and therefore were perceived differently than from the ostentatious officialdom. The pictures of urban and rural life in the Latvian SSR were extremely successful.
FILM. 'We sought to show the hard work of the Ministry of the Interior, guarding socialist legality, - said the director Kalnins, - no matter how carefully the bandits try ' cover their tracks ' to escape from retribution, it is inevitable. Every crime is inevitably punished. . . ' The film is based on genuine events related to the disclosure of the crime by the Latvian internal affairs authorities. Andris Kohlbergs wrote the script, which, compared to the novel, is significantly corrected. Leaving the names and surnames of the main characters almost unchanged, Kohlberg almost rewritten his history. It didn’t get any worse, it just got a new screen incarnation. Cinema, by definition, should not copy a book, because it has a different task - visualizing a book. A successful film adaptation is one in which the viewer does not conflict with the reader, gratefully accepting a new version of the work he liked from the director. Roland Kalnins invited good actors, but, most importantly, managed to explain to them what the charisma and repulsive appeal of their characters are.
A positive character is easier to play and ' nicer' as you can easily see by watching Colonel Konrad Ulf (Vytautas Tomkus), Captain Juris Granch (Agris Rosenbach) and flyer Alvis Graud (Harijs Spanowskis). Playing a scoundrel is harder. And to play a scoundrel so that every viewer hates him is almost impossible. Such ' anti-human' in the picture there is no, but there is a character worthy of the title ' best negative role of the picture' This is a witness Jan Yanovich Golubovsky, exceptionally brightly played by Alexei Mikhailov. In the novel, this character is spelled out in very detail, as well as all of his ' pedigree': the nickname of the Rat (getting into the top ten!), now a pensioner, in the past the owner of a brothel, then the keeper of a katran, the acquirer, an accomplice of robbers and so on. But he played so brightly! Of the female characters, of which there are only four in the film, Nina Starovoitenko is remembered for a long time. Her Nelly Rimsha is a deeply unhappy woman, although she lives almost in the Golden Cage 39. But gold does not please if cats scratch on the soul, and in the eyes - constant despondency and dissatisfaction with their lives. The format of the two-part television film allowed Roland Kalnins to shoot a very "warm" & #39; a movie that leaves a sense of belonging with people who are sick for their work.