The Taiga Troopers (1966)
Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.
Directors: Vladimir Krasnopolskiy, Valeriy Uskov.
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Stanislav Borodokin as "Bukvar" |
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Vladimir Gusev as Nikolai |
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Viktor Zadubrovsky as Keshka |
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Irina Vavilova as Olga |
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Konstantin Khudyakov as Vitaliy |
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Antonina Zhmakova as Zoyka |
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Viktor Filippov as Boris |
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Vladimir Salnikov as Spirkin |
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Valentina Telichkina as Dasha |
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Vladimir Gulyaev as Motovilov |
| Writing | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Vladimir Orlov | Novel |
| Writing | Valeriy Uskov | Writer |
| Camera | Pyotr Yemelyanov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy | Director |
| Directing | Valeriy Uskov | Director |
| Writing | Vladimir Orlov | Writer |
| Sound | Leonid Afanasyev | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Irina Lukashevich | Production Design |
| Sound | Nikolai Kropotov | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Lukashevich | Costume Design |
| Art | Vasiliy Golikov | Production Design |
