What Taiga Was Silent About (1965)
Brave boys, known as taehniks, embark on a perilous quest to find a long-abandoned copper mine, despite facing numerous obstacles. Their journey takes a dangerous turn when they clash with an illegal claimant to the mine, the cunning hunter Anikin.
Director: Aleksandr Kurochkin
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Sergey Naplavkov as Yasha |
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Yuriy Bobkov as Oska |
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Murat Akhmadiev as Alyosha |
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Lyudmila Alpatova as Krestya |
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Marina Khatuntseva as Viktoriya Petrovna Orlova |
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Georgi Zhzhyonov as Grigoriy Anikin |
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Arkadi Trusov as Grandpa Makar |
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Lev Polyakov as Father Nikolay |
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Pyotr Savin as |
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Gavriil Kotozhekov as |
| Directing | Aleksandr Kurochkin | Director |
| Writing | Ignaty Ponomaryov | Writer |
| Camera | Yuri Malinovsky | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Andrei Maslennikov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Petro Slabynskyi | Production Design |
| Directing | P. Syrov | Assistant Director |
| Editing | G. Sadovnikova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Naum Markzitser | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yekaterina Aleksandrova | Costume Design |
| Writing | Valeriya Pogozheva | Script Editor |
| Writing | A. Vlasov | Script Consultant |
| Sound | Valeriy Petrov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Boris Golev | Sound Director |
| Directing | N. Kupriyanova | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | B. Totsenko | Second Assistant Director |
| Camera | Aleksandr Machilskiy | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | D. Shadchinev | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Marina Tsarkova | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Arnold Roytman | Conductor |
| Production | Anatoliy Kravetskiy | Executive Producer |