Swallow's Nest

Yalta, 1927. While colleagues are racing to shoot pictures for the anniversary of the revolution, director Boris Winter begins work on a large-scale adventure film. However, not everything goes as planned: there is a lack of funds, a risky stunt leads to an injury, a drowned person is found in the sea during filming on the embankment, and then a murder occurs within the film crew itself... To understand what is happening, young criminal investigator Ivan Opalin infiltrates the filmmakers and realizes that not all of them are who they claim to be... Valeria Verbinina is a master of historical detective fiction, the author of over 50 novels in this genre. In her new series "Detective Retro," she brilliantly captures the realities of life in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, against the backdrop of a skillfully twisted intrigue. The investigation is led by the detective of the MUR Ivan Opalin.