Five Red Army soldiers, who found themselves in the rear of the Kolchak troops, captured an enemy armored car and captured an intelligence officer. From him they learn that soon a steamer with weapons and ammunition for the upcoming white counteroffensive is due to pass along the river. How to stop the ship, capture it, and then transport such a valuable cargo through ambushes and cordons of Kolchak troops entrenched on both sides of the river?..
Practical Effects
Real armored cars and river explosions—no CGI, all Soviet grit.
Direction
Ordovsky squeezes maximum tension from a clearly tiny budget.
Director
Mikhail Ordovsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Soviet 'stagnation' era, this was part of a wave of Civil War films romanticizing Bolshevik guerrilla tactics while actual Soviet military adventures in Afghanistan were going badly.
Olegar Fedoro later became a prolific British character actor—you've seen him in everything from James Bond to 'The Death of Stalin,' making this his extremely obscure origin story.
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