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At the Breaking Point

At the Breaking Point

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 9, 1957

Genres

Drama

Original Title

На переломе

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Director

Nikolai Lebedev

Description

After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.