The movie takes place at the construction of a tunnel in the Arctic Circle. A young engineer Andrei Arefyev is appointed head of the site. Between him and Nikolai Krumov, head of the neighboring site, there is a serious conflict. And it's not only about different professional approaches to construction methods in harsh conditions: Arefyev's favorite girl Svetlana, without any agony, preferred Krumov to him.
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Igor Vasilev
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Anatoliy Solovyov
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Gennadiy Yukhtin
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Evgeni Burenkov
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Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Nikolay Dupak
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The Forty-First
Kirill Stolyarov
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They Were Nineteen Years Old
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Boris Yurchenko
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No Way Back
Ermak
Valeriy Zolotukhin
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Night Watch
Forbidden Empire
Yuri Katin-Yartsev
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The Very Same Munchhausen
The Adventures of Buratino
Grigori Abrikosov
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Wedding in Malinovka
Valentina Berezutskaya
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Eduard Bredun
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Vladimir Nazarov Director · Arnold Vitol Writer
First release July 8, 1981 · Produced in Russia
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Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · July 8, 1981
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No release date listed for United States.
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