A Trip Without a Load

A Trip Without a Load

89 mins | Drama | Feb. 11, 1963

Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin’s inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov, who, noting one kilometer in the vouchers, traveled a short route he knew only, draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside. Having revealed yet another fraud, in which the director was also involved, Sirotkin realized that he would not write an essay, but that he would be lucky with materials for the trial. This was announced by the authorities of the timber industry. Khromov himself took the journalist on the return trip...

A Trip Without a Load

89 mins | Drama | Feb. 11, 1963

A Trip Without a Load
Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin’s inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov, who, noting one kilometer in the vouchers, traveled a short route he knew only, draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside. Having revealed yet another fraud, in which the director was also involved, Sirotkin realized that he would not write an essay, but that he would be lucky with materials for the trial. This was announced by the authorities of the timber industry. Khromov himself took the journalist on the return trip...
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Порожний рейс
Directors Vladimir Vengerov
Writers Sergei Antonov

Cast

Georgiy Yumatov

as Nikolai Khromov

Aleksandr Demyanenko

as Sirotkin

Tamara Syomina

as Arina

Anatoli Papanov

as Akim Sevastyanovich

German Kachin

as Viktor

Boris Chirkov

as granddad at the airfield

Nikolai Kryukov

as Volkov (uncredited)

Irina Gubanova

as health resort's doctor (uncredited)

Nikolay Kuzmin

as driver (uncredited)

Sergei Dreiden

as rescuer (uncredited)

Mikhail Dubrava

as rescuer (uncredited)

Boris Arakelov

as driver (uncredited)