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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	comment	A detective novel, the Wainer brothers' The Age of Charity, written in 1975, became basis for this 5-part 1979 miniseries, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed. In a case of Adaptation Displacement, the popularity of the film has eclipsed that of the book.Both tell the story of a young and idealistic army officer Vladimir Sharapov, who retires from the Soviet Army after WWII ends and is assigned for duty to Moscow Criminal Police (ÐœÐ£Ð in Russian). There he comes under the command of Gleb Zheglov, an experienced, brilliant, and no-nonsense police officer, who becomes a Big Brother Mentor to Sharapov. They investigate several murder cases connected to the activities of the infamous Black Cat gang (loosely based on a real gang or group of gangs operating in post-WWII Moscow).The film was directed by Stanislav Govorukhin and soon hit the most-beloved-films Top-10 in Soviet Union. An urban legend claims that there were no crimes committed during the time the series was first shown — all the criminals were at home, watching the television. Nowadays, it is still popular and considered to be a TV classic. The TV format is five hour long series (common for TV series in Soviet Union).
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Averted completely. Fox, cornered by the police, uses a waitress as a battering ram \ shield to jump out the restaurant window. This injures or possibly even kills her, since she's left lying on the street as the chase scene begins. When Sharapov follows the villain into the street, the remaining glass cuts him up badly, leaving him with scars that last till the end of the series.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: the Black Cat gang leave a cat drawing or an actual cat at the scene of the crime.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Varya's death in the original novel comes out of nowhere. The only foreshadowing we get is Sharapov noting that nobody displays any triumph from successfully catching the gang.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Zheglov plants evidence to extract information from a known petty thief named Brick.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_33981caf	type	Street Urchin
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: Zheglov was this, as revealed when he offhandedly drops a few lines on his backstory.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The main theme of the film. Sharapov represents Idealism, Zheglov pepresents Cynicism. The highest point of antagonism is a scene with petty thief Kirpich (the Brick) framed by Zheglov for the sake of information about Fox. While juxtaposed, neither of the attitudes is shown to be better than the other.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_38b9969	type	The MÃ¼nchausen
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_38b9969	comment	The MÃ¼nchausen: Grisha "Six To Nine". Zheglov even calls him "a grandson to Baron Von Munchausen".
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: During investigation a caught criminal is asked to write three short fragments by hand, ostensibly in order to get a sample of his hadwriting. Two of the three are from real books. But the third, when read by itself, sounds like a thinly-veiled recommendation letter—which later gets used to gain trust of the criminal's gang.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: Levchenko. Truth in Television, as prisons in 1940's USSR were a very bad place for a criminal who cooperated with the authorities by enlisting in the army.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The book ends tragically, but TV bosses told Govorukhin that the audience cannot stand two tragic deaths in a row, forcing him to choose between Varya and Levchenko. Govorukhin had chosen Varya to survive.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_47987a11	type	Crime Reconstruction
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_47987a11	comment	Crime Reconstruction: subverted. Sharapov convinces the bad guys that Fox can be rescued while he reconstructs a crime "on location". This is in fact a part of a desperate Batman Gambit on his part.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: "The Brick" in the scene with evidence planting gloats at the fact that he refused to lift the wallet (that Zheglov just put into his pocket) he just tried to steal form a woman on the tram:
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Val'ka the Smoked is quite friendly towards Zheglov.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: Zheglov listing all the aliases of Man'ka "The Bond":
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Vasya Vekshin.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_659235a4	type	Train Escape
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_659235a4	comment	Train Escape: Interestingly, the guys being chased don't know it, and only use the Train Escape as a habitual precaution.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: In the third episode, Zheglov and Sharapov go to a performance of Swan Lake in order to catch Pen-Master and his accomplice with the goods. Sharapov is unhappy that he has to watch the criminals instead of enjoying the ballet, but Zheglov doesn't care about the performance at all.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_695d36b5	type	Must State If You're a Cop
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_695d36b5	comment	Must State If You're a Cop: Sharapov, an undercover MUR agent, faces this question when he tries to infiltrate a gang. He answers: "Do I have to provide a document from the Militsia that states I'm not in it"?
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: A variation. Levchenko, a member of the Black Cat gang, doesn't actively want to die—but he really doesn't want to go back to prison, and is ready to risk almost certain death by cops' bullets to avoid it.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Zheglov. He's genuinely fights and despise crime in every way, but he's prejudiced as hell, not above planting the evidence (though only in the case of a known career thief), and more than a little bit trigger-happy. It is implied that he's simply The Sociopath who has chosen an occupation where he can do most good and least harm.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Varya
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7558f0ca	type	Fountain of Expies
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7558f0ca	comment	Fountain of Expies: Zheglov, who inspired any number of copy-cat "breaking the law to uphold the law" fictional cops, particularly after the USSR collapsed.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: In autumn of 1945 there's no famine, but food is being rationed, and anything above the set limits costs a lot. The Black Cat gang rob stores and then sell food through an accomplice in a cafeteria. The scene in their hideout is a feast honest people cannot afford, with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Sharapov is forced to undergo a far more in-depth infiltration than initially planned, after being kidnapped by the criminals for questioning.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Gleb Zheglov performed by Vladimir Vysotsky — awesomely.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Vladimir Sharapov, which is what first brings him into conflict with Zheglov.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Fox realises that Sharapov had tricked him into writing a letter to the Black Cat gang, he suddenly loses his self-confidence. Once he realizes the band is about to be arrested and there's no way out, Promokashka grows downright hysterical. The actor played up the desperate manic energy to such an extent that the real police officers acting as extras in the scene decided to forcefully restrain him.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The leader of the Black Cat gang is a man known as the "Hunchback", a ruthless criminal who isn't above ordering murders and will even join the others in their crimes directly if need be.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Criminal! Is! To! Be! Jailed!"
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Superintendent Svirskiy.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: A memorable scene has Zheglov and Sharapov argue whether planting the wallet on The Brick - who DID steal it, but managed to drop it as he was getting caught - was the right thing to do. Notably, neither the book, nor the series end with a conclusive answer.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Zheglov's modus operandi.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: Per a later interview with the actor playing Fox, he wasn't quite sure what would prompt his character to suspect a police ambush at the restraunt. The director suggested he merely squint his eyes and look around - all the necessary information was conveyed in a single closeup.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Gleb Zheglov is a Pragmatic Hero, uncomfortably close to Unscrupulous Hero: his goals are genuinely noble, but he is quite trigger-happy and readily plants evidence. In the book the main events are almost the same, but the nuances are quite different, and Sharapov concludes that Zheglov simply likes to kill, noble goals notwithstanding, making him a Nominal Hero. Of course, Sharapov can be mistaken.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_bf414570	comment	Cunning Like a Fox: Fox, a member of the Black Cat gang.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Hunchback.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: The suspect points out that he's familiar with the trope from literature, as well as the psychological reasons this works in real life even if the suspect is familiar with it. As expected, it does work, after a fashion — possibly because the Good Cop does like the suspect and the Bad Cop does loathe him.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Sharapov in the movie. First of all, unfortunate casting forced upon the director means that his actor pales in comparison to the charismatic Vysotsky. Secondly, most book scenes showing off Sharapov's badass credentials — specifically, war flashbacks and his sparring with the department's martial arts instructor - are excised from the movie. As a result, Sharapov's status as a NaÃ¯ve Newcomer comes to define him.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_de414a38	type	Bad Guys Play Pool
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_de414a38	comment	Bad Guys Play Pool: Some bad guys are mentioned as billiard players, but the most significant example is Val'ka the Smoked (a thief), who plays billiards with Gleb Zheglov (a cop). Also, with Graying Morality of the series, Zheglov himself can be considered as an example.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Blotter (Promokashka)
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e49686	type	The Hero
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: clean-cut Sharapov fits the bill.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Wainer brothers used several Real Life cases in the MUR's eventful '45 summernote Which Arkady found in the department's archive during his service there. as a basis of their book, though they took a lot of liberties writing them into the plot.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Zheglov uses guile to get what he needs from witnesses, criminals and coworkers. However, he also has the ability to switch from friendly to ruthless in a very short time.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Most of the interrogation scenes. Zheglov vs. Pen-Master, Zheglov vs. Val'ka the Smoked, Zheglov vs. Kostya the Brick Saprykin...
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: A several criminals, especially Kostya "The Brick" Saprykin.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Vladimir Sharapov, former infantery scout, in the role of a cop.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	At the Opera Tonight / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Bad Guys Play Pool / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Badges and Dog Tags / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Big Brother Mentor / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Black Market Produce / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Calling Card / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Crime Reconstruction / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Evil Cripple / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Keep the Reward / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Must State If You're a Cop / int_8e2f15b8
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_8e2f15b8
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Smoking Is Cool / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Street Urchin / int_8e2f15b8
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Train Escape / int_8e2f15b8
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	hasFeature	Affectionate Pickpocket / int_8e2f15b8

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