Sea Tales (1967)

Original title

Морские рассказы

Directed by

Aleksey Sakharov

Genre

adventure film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 10m

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IMDb

How it feels

This film tells two separate short stories about sailors. In one, a Russian sailor and a Spanish bullfighter try to stop a boat owner who wants to sink his own vessel for insurance. In the other, friends join the crew of a ship called the Jupiter and attempt to deliver an underground newspaper to Odessa.

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What happens

Sea Tales (Russian: Морские рассказы) is a 1967 Soviet adventure film directed by Aleksey Sakharov and Aleksandr Svetlov. The film consists of two short stories. In the first story the Russian sailor Nikolay and the former bullfighter Spaniard Jose Maria take a boat, the owner of which plans to flood him in order to get insurance. In the second short story, friends become sailors on the Jupiter ship and are given the task of delivering an underground newspaper to Odessa... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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