Captain of the First Rank
Esimese järgu kapten
Release: 1958-12-28
·Runtime: 91m
·★ 6.0
Drama
History
Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where massacres and bullying of people became a custom. Only thanks to his natural intelligence and perseverance, the illiterate peasant boy managed to avoid the fate of many of his comrades, who became drunkards and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, commander of the cruiser "Svyatoslav", himself suffocating in the difficult atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly fell in love with his messenger for his simple Russian soul, quick-witted mind, love for the homeland and hatred of oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground Bolshevik.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Tallinnfilm
Tallinna Kinostuudio
Cast
Mikhail Orlov
as Zakhar Psaltyryov
Ninel Myshkova
as Lezvina
Aleksandr Zakharov
as Episodic role
Olev Eskola
as Leopold Everling - graf
Galina Kravchenko
as Episodic role
Lia Laats
Voldemar Alev
as Episodic role
Boris Livanov
as Nikolay Lezvin
Galina Iniutina
as Nastasya - mama Vali
Ants Lauter
as Episodic role
Georgiy Mochalov
as Yan
Artyom Karapetyan
as From the author / Voice narrator
Vladimir Yemelyanov
as Viktor Zheleznov - vitse admiral
Eve Kivi
as Valya
Boris Zhukovsky
as Visloukhov - kontr-admiral
Pavel Pervushin
as Botsman
