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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 814

The Bay of Death

192684 minSoviet Union

Synopsis

After White forces seize a southern port, a young revolutionary's attempt to obtain ammunition drives him toward a lighthouse held by partisans. His father, a mechanic who has not shared his son's politics, comes under surveillance. Forced back into service aboard a ship approaching the guerrillas, the older man must decide what use to make of his knowledge of the vessel.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs: 65:56
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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No subtitle track in this language

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Cast

V. Yaroslavtsev

A. Matsevich

Vasili Lyudvinsky

A. Ravich

Nikolai Saltykov

Leonid Yurenev

DirectorsAbram Room

Inspirations

Abram Room bases the historical drama on a story by the seafaring writer Alexei Novikov-Priboy. The conflict turns on a mechanic's practical control over a ship during the Russian Civil War.

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