At the Breaking Point (1957)
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.
Director: Nikolai Lebedev
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Vyacheslav Zharikov as |
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Nina Drobysheva as |
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Mikhail Yekaterininskiy as |
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Yuriy Sorokin as |
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Viktor Geraskin as |
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Lev Zhukov as |
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Albert Yanson as |
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Ivan Dmitriev as |
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Andrei Kostrichkin as |
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Boris Lyoskin as |
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Boris Aleksandrov as |
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Ivan Zhevago as |
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Boris Kudryashov as |
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Yura Lepeshkin as |
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Aleksandr Melnikov as |
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Antonina Pavlycheva as |
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Aleksandr Sokolov as |
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Valentina Savelyeva as |
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Lyubov Virolainen as |
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Vladislav Kovalkov as |
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Yekaterina Sobol as Аграфена Карповна |
| Directing | Nikolai Lebedev | Director |
| Writing | Yevgeni Mitko | Writer |
| Camera | Vitaliy Chulkov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Vladimir Maklakov | Music |
| Art | Alexander Black | Production Design |