Synopsis
Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where massacres and bullying of people became a custom. Only thanks to his natural intelligence and perseverance, the illiterate peasant boy managed to avoid the fate of many of his comrades, who became drunkards and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, commander of the cruiser "Svyatoslav", himself suffocating in the difficult atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly fell in love with his messenger for his simple Russian soul, quick-witted mind, love for the homeland and hatred of oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground Bolshevik.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksandr MandrykinDirector
- Yuriy KrotkovScreenplay
- Eugen KappOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Boris LivanovNikolay Lezvin
- Mikhail OrlovZakhar Psaltyryov
- Vladimir YemelyanovViktor Zheleznov - vitse admiral
- Olev EskolaLeopold Everling - graf
- Ninel MyshkovaLezvina
- Galina IniutinaNastasya - mama Vali
- Eve KiviValya
- Asta VihandiLuiza Everling
- Boris ZhukovskyVisloukhov - kontr-admiral
- Valentin ArkhipenkoLavrentiy Kudinov - botsman
- Vyacheslav SirinGavrila Titov - matros
- Mikhail DubravaSergeev - matros