Film

Белая земля

1971 · Drama · War

Operation Holtsauga was a Nazi plan to destroy Soviet ships and aircraft approaching Murmansk, which was carried out in 1942. Near Bezymyanny Island, a Soviet ship struck a mine and sank, and engineer Okulich, who miraculously survived, was taken prisoner. However, he managed to escape and even took German officer Ritter with him. During a week of difficult travel to the mainland, he learns from the German about the Holzaug plan. Thirty years later, an explosion occurs on Bezymyanny Island during the construction of an astrophysical station. Now Okulich must uncover all the details of the old operation in Munich...

Pauls Butkevics

Alexander Okulich

Uldis Pūcītis

Johann Ritter

Oleg Yankovskiy

Frank Ritter

Alfons Kalpaks

Kurt

Olga Krūmiņa

Frank Ritter's mother

Olga Seleznyova

Okulich's bride

• Alexander KarpovDirector
• Aleksey LeontyevScreenplay
• Sergey PetrovskyDirector of Photography
• Eduard KhagagortyanOriginal Music Composer

Release date

August 21, 1971

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Genres

Drama, War