Semyon Dezhnyov
(1983)
★ 8 IMDb · 2 votes
Year: 1983
Runtime: 80 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Николай Гусаров
Cast: Алексей Булдаков, Леонид Неведомский, Viktor Grigoryuk, Margarita Borisova, Иван Краско, Ольга Сирина, Олег Корчиков, Николай Гусаров, Степан Емельянов, Геннадий Юхтин
Plot
Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl's father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait "from a warm sea to a cold one": from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.