The Taiga Troopers

The Taiga Troopers

88 mins | Drama | May 16, 1966

Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.

The Taiga Troopers

88 mins | Drama | May 16, 1966

The Taiga Troopers
Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Таёжный десант
Directors Valeriy Uskov, Vladimir Krasnopolskiy
Writers Vladimir Orlov, Valeriy Uskov, Vladimir Krasnopolskiy

Cast

Stanislav Borodokin

as "Bukvar"

Vladimir Gusev

as Nikolai

Viktor Zadubrovsky

as Keshka

Irina Vavilova

as Olga

Viktor Filippov

as Boris

Vladimir Salnikov

as Spirkin

Vladimir Gulyaev

as Motovilov