SHADOW GAME. FILM 12

After her husband’s death, Alexandra Korzukhina tries to maintain herself financially by restoring paintings. One of her clients, a well-known art collector, comes back to Alexandra with a complaint: a fake was returned to him instead of the original after restoration work! The painting is very expensive – it’s painted by Kalmykov, who, like Vasnetsov, worked in Neo-Russian style, depicting the evil characters from Russian fairy tales and folklore.

Trying to save her reputation, Korzukhina is forced to join Andrei Grekov’s criminal investigation. Together they discover that there is more than one forgery: a series of Kalmykov’s paintings have been stolen from various galleries and museums around the country. In addition, Kalmykov’s works are of bad reputation. There is a myth that the images of fairy tale creatures created by the artist bring misfortune to the owners of the paintings sooner or later. And, indeed, major suspects in the theft case begin to die soon in the most monstrous way.