Liquidation (miniseries)
Russian television series
Liquidation (2007) (Russian: Ликвидация, Likvidatsiya) is a highly popular Russian television series. The year is 1946. World War II is over, but the post-war city of Odessa is ruled by serial killer prison-escapees and former Nazi collaborators.
Fallen into disfavor, Soviet general Marshal Zhukov is sent to Odessa by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to handle the situation. Together with the head of the local criminal investigation unit, David Gottsman, Marshal Zhoukov begins a special operation post-war Odessa crime cleanup.
Inspiration
The film parallels the famous 1979 Soviet film The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed with a notable ethical shift. In the "Meeting Place", chief of criminal investigations Gleb Zheglov (played by Vladimir Vysotskiy) had a modus operandi "The thief must go to prison, no matter how I put him there" (and uses planted evidence to do so).
In Liquidation, chief of criminal investigations David Gottsman's (played by Vladimir Mashkov) motto has changed to "The thief must go to prison, but lawfully so".
The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Vladimir Mashkov and Konstantin Lavronenko (The Return, The Banishment). Sergei Makovetsky had to replace Andrey Krasko, who died of a heart attack during filming.
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