The Tale of the "Neistoviy"
About The Tale of the "Neistoviy"
In the summer of 1943 the Northern Fleet destroyer Neistoviy is sent to escort a fuel tanker through the German submarine zone in the Barents Sea. The fuel is expected at the northern airbases. The ship depth-charges a U-boat, then commander Nikitin breaks off the chase and turns back to the tanker he had left behind. The tanker makes port. On the way home the destroyer meets the same boat on the surface and cuts it in two. In the home port the fleet commander tells the crew that the ship has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Cast & crew
More about The Tale of the "Neistoviy"
Boris Babochkin directed and plays Nikitin. Pavel Furmansky wrote the screenplay. Mosfilm shot from 23 June to 22 November 1947 at Polyarny and other Northern Fleet bases in Murmansk Oblast, after the crew scouted locations from a ship at sea. The destroyer on screen is the flotilla leader Baku. The short schedule won the unit a challenge Red Banner in a studio competition.
Themes
Background
The voyage is set in the summer of 1943, when the Northern Fleet was running ships through the Barents Sea under German submarine attack.
Making
Asked about varnish on the story, Babochkin said he loved the life around him unvarnished and did not think that life needed any.
Look
Iolanda Chen and Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed the picture at the fleet bases and at sea.
Music
Vissarion Shebalin wrote the score.
Notes
- Aleksei Alekseyev plays senior lieutenant Dobrodomov, and Viktor Mironov plays the political officer Karpov.
- Ivan Pereverzev is Mezentsev, commander of the destroyer 126. Leonid Kmit is that ship's radio operator Filatov.
- Mikhail Gluzsky plays Tarapata. Mikhail Derzhavin plays the fleet commander.
- V. Bondareva plays Yekaterina Grigoryevna Boyko, a meteorologist from Dikson Island.
- Mikhail Yuferov was the production designer. The film is black and white.
Scenes
- Nikitin stops the hunt and turns the destroyer back toward the abandoned tanker.
- On the return voyage the ship rams the surfaced submarine and cuts it in half.
- The fleet commander announces the Order of the Red Banner in the home port.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1947. Повесть о «Неистовом».webm)
