Under the Mask of the Black Cat (1990)

A Soviet crime film made at Uzbekfilm in 1990 and the directing debut of Yusup Razykov (Olim Irgashev is also credited as director); Razykov wrote the script. It is set in Tashkent in 1942, a city that took in tens of thousands of people fleeing wartime hunger and whose well-stocked shops and markets draw criminals from across the country. In summer a new, unusually brazen gang calling itself the Black Cat appears, and the investigators Shakirov and Rotko take on the case. The cast includes Shukhrat Irgashev, Dmitry Iosifov, Viktor Terelya and Zulkhumor Muminova.