Lights on the River

Lights on the River is a 1954 Soviet children's film directed by Viktor Eisymont. A screen version of the novel of the same name by Nikolai Dubov.

Plot

Schoolboy from Kyiv came on vacation to his uncle, a working buoy-driver on the Dnieper. Not at once, but he made friends with the local guys, and even helped his uncle to prevent the ship from crashing.

Cast

Valery Pastukh as Kostya
Nina Shorina as Nyura
Aleksandr Kopelev as Misha
Fedya Severin as Timosha
Lyosha Kozlovsky as Yegorka
Vitali Doronin as Yefim
Mark Bernes as major assistant of captain
Anna Litvinova as mother of Kostya

Criticism

The peculiarity of the story by Dubov, on the basis of which the script Lights on the River was written, lay in its bright, optimistic sound, in the truthful revelation of the characters and psychology of the children. Eisymont was largely able to preserve and convey this peculiarity of the story well. In the film lives joyful, poetic atmosphere of the children's world.