Seaman's Daughter

1941 Drama 69 minutes Directed by Heorhiy Tasin

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About Seaman's Daughter

Maritime Institute graduates finish with a sail from Batumi to Odessa, and Irina Zakharova has trained as a sailor against her father Pyotr, who thinks she studied medicine. She asks for the steamer Dolphin, just repaired and renamed Pobeda, instead of the newer ship Abkhazia. As first mate she pulls a slack crew through a storm, while navigator Vasily of Abkhazia courts her. Georgi Tasin directed the Odessa studio picture.

Cast & crew

More about Seaman's Daughter

Wikidata credits Georgiy Grebner with the screenplay, and Russian sources also name Alexander Novogrudsky. Grigory Ayzenberg photographed it and Yury Milyutin composed the score. Wikidata lists 69 minutes, a cinema encyclopedia lists 71, and the Russian Wikipedia dates the premiere May 10, 1942.

Themes

  • a daughter who defies a ban on going to sea
  • a slack crew
  • a storm
  • a courtship with another ship's navigator
  • Irina Zakharova
  • Pobeda
  • Abkhazia
  • Odessa
  • storm
  • Vasily

Background

Irina's posting is a fight over a woman taking a deck officer's job on a ship with a bad reputation.

Look

Grigory Ayzenberg photographed the Odessa Film Studio production.

Music

Yury Milyutin is the composer on Wikidata and on the Russian Wikipedia.

Notes

  • Tamara Belyaeva plays Irina Zakharova.
  • Ivan Peltzer plays her father Pyotr Fedoseevich Zakharov, and Vera Okuneva plays her mother Maria Vasilyevna.
  • The shipping chief tries to talk her off Pobeda and onto Abkhazia.
  • The catalog year is 1941, the production year. The premiere date used here is the 1942 Russian Wikipedia date.

Scenes

  • Irina asks for the renamed steamer Pobeda when the chief wants her on the newer Abkhazia.
  • She holds the crew together when Pobeda meets a storm.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1941 Дочь моряка.webm)