Twelve years ago, in 2004, the 8-episode film "Starfish Cavaliers" was released, the actors of which told the audience an amazing detective story, where love and deception, intrigues and murders, familiarity with the history of their country and the psychology of human relationships were intertwined quite organically. .
Good movie lovers
Over the past ten to fifteen years, a huge number of mini-and multi-part series of domestic production have been released. Some were frankly weak. Others, despite the presence of strong actors in them, are uninteresting. Still others were struck by a funny and artless game. The plots of them have long fed up. It seemed that they were written with a carbon copy, with a slight departure from the “skeleton” in different paintings.
But, fortunately, in this sea of nonsense you can meet really interesting, thought-provoking tapes. And by chance, actors of the first echelon are involved in them. They play so that the audience does not have the slightest doubt that everything that is happening on the screen is pure truth. It is to this list of paintings that the series “Starfish Cavaliers” belongs, actors which represent one of the best teams assembled on the same set. Moreover, all the actors, regardless of age and experience in the cinema, were almost equal, playing in this tape.
Advantages, or Why choose this movie
This miniseries has two main advantages: the plot of a good detective and the magnificent actors of the film "Starfish Chevaliers". Any of the audience will be happy to watch the game of the masters of Soviet cinema: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Anatoly Kuznetsov. But the young actors did not disappoint either - the duet of Tatyana Arntgolts and Igor Petrenko, who were just starting their career at that time, looked quite organic.
The acting team was complemented perfectly by Andrei Sokolov (Oleg), Sergey Veksler (major of state security Yegor Ushakov), Dmitry Maryanov (captain Sergey Kharitonov), Sergey Yushkevich (Boris Govorkov), Andrey Rudensky (English journalist Timothy Stevens). How not to recall Natalya Fateeva, who played a small role as the wife of Mironov Jane, but even in this role she was dazzling, as always.
Series Starfish Cavaliers (the actors and roles played by them are still loved by the audience) showed the whole spectrum of human qualities: from betrayal, greed, even murder to courage, decency, empathy.
Story line
An eight-part and complex detective story unfolds rather slowly. The main character, a girl with a beautiful Russian name, Olga (Tatyana Arntgolts), accidentally read an article in the magazine Ogonyok about Soviet naval officers who are gentlemen of a very rare and almost forgotten British award of the war years called the Order of the Starfish. She understands that the most valuable relic of their family is precisely the very order that has been stored in their house for several decades in a small shoe box among all trash.
From the first minutes of watching the series “Cavaliers of the Starfish”, in which the actors showed life “from the inside”, you can fall for the hook of curiosity, and then the whole evening is provided on the TV.
Now Olga knows that units managed to get such a reward. But among this small number of people there is her own grandfather, about whom nothing has been known for many years. The girl understands perfectly well that since enough time has passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, gentlemen may not be alive, but she decides to use this random chance and find her grandfather. In addition, she really wants to know where he received this award. This is the beginning of the story in the film "Starfish Cavaliers." The actors have so plausibly shown all the relationships, experiences and hopes that for a moment the doubt creeps in that they are playing a made-up story.
Tricks of Fate
During the search, Olga learns that her grandfather’s award is not only historical, but also material, because any collector for this order will part with a very substantial amount of money. In addition to everything, the heirs of the Knights of the Order have good material privileges.
As it usually happens in life, where a lot of money is spinning, criminal characters appear, after which the fighters with them necessarily enter the stage. The girl will learn to distinguish between where the truth is and where the false assurances. Olga will get acquainted with various people whose past and present days are woven into one bizarre pattern. Now it is becoming a cog in the mechanism of the most complicated intrigue, the beginning of which was laid back in the time of World War II ... What kind of award, which happened to play an important role in the fate of a large number of people? Actors of the series "Cavaliers of the Starfish" will help viewers to understand all the intricacies of what is happening. Will young Olga be able to find her grandfather and unravel the intricacies of mysterious events, you can find out by watching this series.