Midshipman Panin(1960)

movie - first aired/released 1960-05-23 - 96 min - audience 5.4

Drama, War

Directed by Mikhail Shveitser

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.