Engineer Kochin's Error

1939 AdventureThriller 111 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Macheret

About Engineer Kochin's Error

Engineer Kochin, at a Moscow aircraft plant, takes secret blueprints home. Foreign intelligence has already been after those drawings. The mistake opens the spy plot.

Cast & crew

More about Engineer Kochin's Error

Aleksandr Macheret directed. The Russian title is Ошибка инженера Кочина. The catalog also spells the name Cochin. Released December 14, 1939.

Themes

  • drawings taken out of the plant
  • a foreign service already watching
  • Moscow, late 1930s
  • Kochin
  • blueprints
  • aircraft plant
  • espionage
  • Orlova
  • Ranevskaya

Look

Igor Gelein photographed the thriller.

Preservation

A Commons transfer of the 1939 film is online.

Notes

  • Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya are billed. Mikhail Zharov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Leonid Kmit, and Boris Petker are in the catalog cast.

Scenes

  • Kochin carries the secret drawings home.
  • The intelligence service is already on that set of plans.