A Commandant of Birds Island
A few very hard days from the life of Kositsyn - the sailor from the coast guard ship.
Vasily Pronin
Director
Sergey Dikovsky
Writer
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Vasily Pronin
Directed by Vasili Pronin.
Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...
The film tells about the front-line friendship between the sons of two people- Gafiz and Ivan.
During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.
This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.
A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.
