The Lonely White Sail

Name: The Lonely White Sail
Director: Vladimir Legoshin
Genre: Adventure, Family
Released: 1937
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Boris Runge, Aleksandr Melnikov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Fyodor Nikitin, Daniil Sagal

1937 Adventure Family 92 minutes Directed by Vladimir Legoshin

About The Lonely White Sail

Two boys try to save an officer the White forces have trapped. The attempts swing between comic scrapes and serious danger.

Cast & crew

More about The Lonely White Sail

Vladimir Legoshin directed it from Valentin Kataev's novel of the same Russian title. Bentsion Monastyrsky photographed it. Mikhail Rauchwerger wrote the music. Soyuzdetfilm released it on 25 November 1937. It runs 92 minutes. Boris Runge, Aleksandr Melnikov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Fyodor Nikitin, Daniil Sagal, and Ivan Pelttser are billed.

Themes

Two boys and a trapped officer
Whites in the town
A rescue that turns comic
Kataev
Legoshin
White forces
Soyuzdetfilm

Look

Bentsion Monastyrsky photographed the boys' attempts to reach the trapped officer.

Music

Mikhail Rauchwerger wrote the music.

Notes

The Russian title is Белеет парус одинокий.
The source is Kataev's novel.
The two boys carry both the jokes and the rescue.

Scenes

The boys set out after the officer the Whites are holding.
A comic try and a dangerous one sit in the same rescue.

Also available

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