Русский
About us News/events Catalogue Selected films Documentaries contacts


Lenfilm gold classics

 
THE LAST INCH
1958, 90 min., color.
Drama. Directors: Teodor Vulfovich, Nikita Kurikhin,
screenplay: Leonid Belokurov (based on a short story
of the same title by James Aldridge), camera: Samuil
Rubashkin, production designer: Alexey Rudyakov,
music: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Georgi Salye.
Cast: Slava Muratov, Nikolay Kryukov, Mikhail Gluzsky.
An excellent but elderly pilot Ben agrees to do some dangerous underwater filming for the TV. Accompanied
by his twelve-year-old son Davy, he flies a light sports
plane to Shark Bay. Davy sits on the shore for a long time.
At last, a blood-streaked Ben emerges from the ocean.
Painfully, the boy drags his heavy father to the plane...

2nd Prize for the film in the category Films for Children and Young People, 2nd Prize to T. Vulfovich and N. Kurikhin, 1st Prize to S. Rubashkin, 2nd Prize to M. Weinberg and 2nd Prize to N. Kryukov at the 3rd
All-Union Film Festival (1960).