The Chelyuskinites

Overview

In February 1934, the steamship Chelyuskin was crushed by ice and sank in the Chukchi Sea. The ship's crew and members of the scientific expedition landed on a drifting ice floe, where they remained for two months. How did people live on the ice floe? How did they cope with loneliness and dispel dark thoughts? In addition to work, when the weather was good, they played soccer, volleyball, and town ball. They went on ski trips. They read. They managed to save four books: Pushkin's poems, Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha," Hamsun's "Pan," and the third volume of Sholokhov's "Quiet Don." We reminisced about our former lives, watched the northern lights, fought illness, dreamed, froze... In the evenings, we listened to a precious Marlene Dietrich record—we managed to save the gramophone, but only with two records. We published a wall newspaper called "We Will Not Surrender." They tried to be witty, played pranks. They created a choir...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 1, 1985

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm

Cast

Aleksandr Lazarev,Pyotr Velyaminov,Igor Komarov,Evgeniy Gvozdyov,Valery Kravchenko,Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev,Semyon Morozov,Georgiy Teykh,Elena Antonova,Sergei Danilinand 1 more

Director

Mikhail Yershov

Writer

Oskar Kurganov

Cinematography

Nikolay Zhilin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0263196