I Am a Black Sea Man

1944 DramaWar Directed by Aleksandr Macheret

About I Am a Black Sea Man

Stepan Polosukhin, from a Black Sea family, joins the fleet. At the start of the war his first job is to scout the enemy's firing points. He does it, and then he fights the German forces on the coast. Boris Andreyev plays Stepan.

Cast & crew

More about I Am a Black Sea Man

Aleksandr Macheret and Vladimir Braun directed. Leonid Solovyov wrote it. The Russian title is Я — черноморец. Larisa Yemelyantseva, Andrii Sova, and Fyodor Ishchenko are billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

  • A sailor's first scout
  • Firing points on the coast
  • The fleet he was born to
  • Stepan Polosukhin
  • Black Sea
  • 1944
  • Macheret
  • Braun
  • Boris Andreyev

Background

The story starts as the Soviet Union enters the war the film calls the Great Patriotic War, on the Black Sea coast.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The English Wikipedia title is I Am a Sailor of the Black Sea Fleet.
  • The first assignment is reconnaissance, not a sea battle.
  • No prize is attached to the Wikidata record.

Scenes

  • Polosukhin's first wartime job is to find the enemy guns, and he comes back having done it.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Я — черноморец)