During the retreat from Baku in 1920, prisoners of the White Army counterintelligence are dropped off on an uninhabited island in the Caspian Sea, where they are left to die of hunger and thirst. Four of them—the Bolsheviks Miller, Zanoza, Nesterova, and the scientist Shatsky—manage to escape.
Cast
Aleksandr Chausov
Hans Miller
Oleksandra Vasylieva
Valya Nesterova
Nikolay Radischev
Nikolay Shatskiy
Vitaliy Perezhogin
Pyotr Zanoza
Li Gersu
Oraz
Evgeniy Tokmakov
Bek-Memed
Dey-Tun
Adzhar
Mikhail Viktorov
Guzar
Zaki Bayazetskiy
Ali-Bek
Aleksey Dolinin
(uncredited)
Heiri Emirzade
(uncredited)
Aleksandr Razumnyj
White officer
Crew
Aleksandr Razumnyj
Director
Konstantin Paustovsky
Writer
Ivan Popov
Writer
Aleksandr Frolov
Director of Photography
Yevgeni Slavinsky
Director of Photography
Antonin Pankryshev
Assistant Director
A. Grinblat
Assistant Director
Yakov Feldman
Production Design
Veniamin Kirshenbaum
Sound Director
Yu. Miller
Sound Director
Boris Volsky
Sound
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Original Music Composer
Sergey Pototsky
Original Music Composer