A Soviet sailor, a smuggling ship, and oranges hiding guns—this musical romance goes places.
The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes her fall in love with him. Shipowner finds out about this. When the police commissioner shows him the photograph of the rebel sent, he recognizes the sailor, who got a job with him on a ship on which weapons are transported under the guise of oranges.
Production
Port city sets dripping with 80s Eastern Bloc aesthetic.
Acting
Tatyana Dogileva's chaotic energy as the shipowner's pawn.
Director
Yan Frid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yan Frid was a Soviet musical specialist; this was his attempt at 'socialist romance with edge' during glasnost's thaw.
The orange-smuggling plot was allegedly based on a real 1970s Black Sea port scandal—Soviet censors nearly nixed it.
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