The five-part TV movie “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” directed by Stanislav Govorukhin is considered a classic of Soviet cinema. It was based on the Weiner brothers’ novel “The Era of Mercy”, but those who remembered the book well looked at it with interest. It’s the credit of a wonderful ensemble cast and talented screenwriters. Detective Gleb Zheglov has always aroused special interest among readers and viewers. This very complex character was brilliantly and very close to the intention of the creators of the book, embodied by the beloved actor of generations – Vladimir Vysotsky. But there was one important detail that distinguished Zheglov and Vysotsky. Can you guess what it is?
Zheglov’s book was called “the first negative picture of Soviet detective literature.” And Vysotsky himself, starting to work on the film, said that the hero attracted him precisely with his ambiguity: “we don’t understand Gleb, whether we like him or not.”
