title: The Criminal Quartet
text: # The Criminal Quartet
  
  The Criminal Quartet (Russian: Криминальный квартет, romanized: Kriminalnyy kvartet) is a 1989 Soviet action film directed by Aleksandr Muratov.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The investigator discovers a large consignment of defective shoes at the trading base and starts a case about this. Suddenly his son disappears. Soon the bell rings. The kidnappers demand that he close the case if he wants to see his son alive.
  
  The hero tells this to his friends, two operatives and a journalist. They have been friends since the orphanage and are ready to do anything for a friend! Four fearless men challenge the mafia.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Nikolai Karachentsov as Marat
  * Vladimir Steklov as Semyon Portnoi, Investigator
  * Boris Shcherbakov as Pyotr Sarayev
  * Vladimir Yeryomin as Nikolay Larin
  * Semyon Farada as Levkoev
  * Oleg Anofriev as Matvey Iosifovich Feldman
  * Alexey Sheynin as factory chief technologist
  * Yuriy Katin-Yartsev as Semyon Moiseevich
  * Nele Savichenko-Klimene as Lyusya, Portnoi's wife
  * Boris Klyuyev as factory chief engineer
  * Lev Prygunov as Lev
  * Yuriy Nazarov as Dmitry, police officer
  * Igor Yasulovich as Shakalov
  * Vadim Spiridonov as Lobanov
  * Ivan Muradkhanov as Anton, Portnoi's son
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Cognac Festival du Film Policier (1990) — Audience Award
  