Lights on the River

Lights on the River
Russian: Огни на реке
Directed by	Viktor Eisymont
Written by	Georgy Grebner
Starring	Valery Pastukh Nina Shorina Aleksandr Kopelev Fedya Severin Mark Bernes
Cinematography	Bentsion Monastyrsky
Music by	Anatoli Lepin
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	March 5, 1954 (1954-03-05)
Running time	80 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Lights on the River (Russian: Огни на реке, romanized: Ogni na reke) is a 1954 Soviet children's film directed by Viktor Eisymont. A screen version of the novel of the same name by Nikolai Dubov.

Plot

Schoolboy from Kyiv came on vacation to his uncle, a working buoy-driver on the Dnieper. Not at once, but he made friends with the local guys, and even helped his uncle to prevent the ship from crashing.

Cast

• Valery Pastukh as Kostya
• Nina Shorina as Nyura
• Aleksandr Kopelev as Misha
• Fedya Severin as Timosha
• Lyosha Kozlovsky as Yegorka
• Vitali Doronin as Yefim
• Mark Bernes as major assistant of captain
• Anna Litvinova as mother of Kostya

Criticism

The peculiarity of the story by Dubov, on the basis of which the script Lights on the River was written, lay in its bright, optimistic sound, in the truthful revelation of the characters and psychology of the children. Eisymont was largely able to preserve and convey this peculiarity of the story well. In the film lives joyful, poetic atmosphere of the children's world.

External links

• Lights on the River at IMDb
• Кино: политика и люди (30-е годы): к 100-летию мирового кино