The Taiga Troopers

The Taiga Troopers

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 16, 1966

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Таёжный десант

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Director

Vladimir Krasnopolskiy

Description

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.