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Semyon Dezhnyov (1983)
Directed by Nikolai Gusarov
Overview
Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl’s father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait “from a warm sea to a cold one”: from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.
Length 76 minutes
Actors
Aleksei Buldakov | Leonid Nevedomsky | Viktor Grigoryuk | Margarita Borisova | Ivan Krasko | Olga Sirina | Oleg Korchikov | Nikolai Gusarov | Stepan Yemelyanov | Gennadiy Yukhtin | Bolot Beyshenaliev