The Green Van (1983)

It is 1920 After three years of the Russian Civil War communist government is finally established in Odessa Young Alyosha Patrikeyv who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police He is assigned to fight illegal booz production in a small village of Severinovka When he goes on a chase after a horse thief Krasavchik Alyosha finds himself up against Cherven the most dangerous criminal in Odessa