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The Boy Named Captain

The Boy Named Captain

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 15, 1973

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

War, Drama

Original Title

Мальчишку звали Капитаном

Production Companies

Odessa Film Studio

Director

Mark Tolmachyov

Description

A story about a young hero of the Great Patriotic War, scout Yasha Gordienko. A short, stocky boy who dreamed of becoming a military sailor was a liaison of a partisan detachment in Odesa occupied by the Nazis. Captured on the denunciation of a traitor, he was shot by the Germans Nazis.