Soviet kids with guns: chaotic, weirdly charming, and somehow legal in 1968.
Practical Effects
Genuine 1960s Soviet military hardware handled by actual children.
Costume
Historically confused 'white army' villains dressed like random cosplay.
Director
Aleksandrs Leimanis
Gunārs Cilinskis
Platais/Zagursky
Ivan Ryzhov
дед Елисей (старик со шрамом)
Aivars Gavlins
Mika
Aivars Leimanis
Malyavka
Ivan Dmitriev
Sviridov Boris Grigorievich
Baiba Indriksone
Gabriella-Velta
Eduards Pavuls
Lapotnik
Boris Nikiforov
Nemchinov - upravlyayushchiy
Vera Titova
traktirshchitsa
Vladimir Boriskin
traktirshchik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a peculiar Soviet subgenre where children fight counter-revolutionaries like it's summer camp. Latvian SSR's answer to Disney, if Disney endorsed armed class struggle.
Director Leimanis cast his own son Aivars as Malyavka, making this history's most literal nepotism in child soldier cinema.
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