After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.
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Vyacheslav Zharikov
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Nina Drobysheva
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Mikhail Yekaterininskiy
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Yuriy Sorokin
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Viktor Geraskin
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Lev Zhukov
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Albert Yanson
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Maksim Perepelitsa
Ivan Dmitriev
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Andrei Kostrichkin
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Boris Lyoskin
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Nikolai Lebedev Director · Yevgeni Mitko Writer Vitaliy Chulkov Cinematographer
First release December 9, 1957 · Produced in Russia · Original title На переломе
Production
Lenfilm
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Russia
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Original title
На переломе
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 9, 1957
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No release date listed for United States.
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