Pobeda
About Pobeda
Three test pilots attempt a non-stop flight around the world in the experimental plane Pobeda-1. Radio contact is lost. A Japanese station reports that the plane has crashed. The mother of one pilot, Klim Samoilov, keeps waiting. His brother Sasha searches and does not find them.
Cast & crew
More about Pobeda
Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller directed. Nathan Zarkhi and Vsevolod Vishnevsky wrote it. Anatoli Golovnya photographed. Yuri Shaporin wrote the music. Mosfilm. Released 15 July 1938. Runtime 77 minutes. Also titled A Happy Accident. The catalog lists only Doller. A round-the-world nonstop flight of this kind was not flown; the picture uses the preparation of the Chkalov and Gromov long-distance flights as its starting point.
Themes
Background
The setup borrows from the Soviet long-range flights of the late 1930s. The nonstop circuit of the globe in the film was not a flight that took place.
Making
Pudovkin and Doller shot a drama about a radio silence, not a record of a completed circumnavigation.
Look
Anatoli Golovnya photographed it.
Music
Yuri Shaporin wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Vladimir Solovyov, and Aleksey Zubov lead the Russian Wikipedia cast.
- Also in the catalog: Sergey Ostroumov, Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya, and Zinaida Karpova.
- The plane is called Pobeda-1. The Russian title means Victory.
- A secondary plot summary names the crew Andrei Sedov, navigator Alexander Belyakov, and second pilot Pyotr Ivanov, and gives the distance as 20,000 km ending at a Moscow airfield. Russian Wikipedia does not print those names or that ending, and says the page has no full plot.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as Победа (1938).webm.
Scenes
- The Japanese station announces that Pobeda-1 has crashed after the radio goes dead.
- Klim Samoilov's mother refuses to accept that he is dead, and his brother Sasha searches.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Победа (1938).webm)
