Знак четырёх) is a 2023 Russian mystery film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov about the theatrical bohemians of the early 20th century and the inhabitants of the Khitrovka slums.
[1][2][3][4][5] It stars Konstantin Kryukov, Mikhail Porechenkov and Alexander Oleshko.
The film is based on the works of Vladimir Gilyarovsky and Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Sign of Four.
[6] The film takes place in Moscow in 1902, when director Konstantin Stanislavsky is looking for inspiration to stage a new play and, together with Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a connoisseur of the capital's slums, goes to the criminal Khitrovka and gets involved in the investigation into the murder of a local resident with a dark past.
[7] Karen Shakhnazarov's film is a free adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective story The Sign of the Four (1890).