The read
It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart and kind little boy. The rude drunken sailor Ivan Luchkin was especially attached to the boy. Once it was Maksimka who managed to save Luchkin from foreign recruiters of labor. For resourcefulness and courage, the young hero is enlisted in the team of the corvette and becomes the cabin boy of the Russian fleet.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Grigoriy KoltunovScreenplay
- Volodymyr BraunDirector
- Vadym HomoliakaOriginal Music Composer
- Ihor ShamoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Boris AndreyevLuchkin
- Nikolay KryuchkovТарас Матвеич
- Anatoliy BovykinМаксимка
- Sergei KurilovНиколай Федорович
- Stepan KayukovВасилий Андреевич
- Vladimir BalashovАркадий Павлович Чебыкин
- Vyacheslav TikhonovАлександр Иванович Горелов
- Mark Bernesкорабельный врач
- Pyotr SobolevskyИваныч
- Konstantin SorokinСойкин
- Nikolay PishvanovЗахарыч
- Andrii SovaСвистунов