Duel (Russian: Поединок) is a 1944 Soviet crime drama film directed by Vladimir Legoshin.^[1][2][3][4]

Plot

The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army receives a new gun: "L-2", which was invented by the engineer Leontiev. He also has to test weapons on the front. German intelligence wants to acquire these weapons at any cost.

Starring

• Sergei Lukyanov as Secret Service Col. Lartsev
• Vladimir Belokurov as Peter Weininger, aka Petrov, aka Petronescu
• Andrey Tutyshkin as The Captive Boris Leontyev
• Nadezhda Borskaya as Mariya Zubova (as Natasha Borskaya)
• Nina Alisova as Natalya Osenina
• Nadir Malishevsky as Capt. Bakhmetyev
• Aleksey Gribov as The Commissar of the Secret Service
• Omar Abdulov as Gestapo Col. Kraschke
• Anna Zarzhitskaya as Tonya, spy
• Irina Mesnonkina as Irina, spy^[5]