Pirates of the 20th Century
57 %|Dec 10, 1979|Adventure, Action
A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.
Featured Crew
Boris Durov
Writer
Boris Durov
Director
Stanislav Govorukhin
Scenario Writer
Boris Komyakov
Production Design
Aleksandr Rybin
Director of Photography
Yevgeni Gevorgyan
Original Music Composer
Cast
Nikolay Eryomenko
senior mechanic Sergey Sergeevich "Grandfather"
Pyotr Velyaminov
the captain of the cargo ship "Nezhin" Ivan Ilyich
Talgat Nigmatulin
the pirate Saleh, "Baby", aka Lee Guang, Nguyen Cho
Georgi Martirosyan
George Klyuev
Vladimir Episkoposyan
bearded pirate ("give a hand, Noah")
Rein Aren
pirate captain "Master"
Dilorom Kambarova
Maa Islander
Natalya Khorokhorina
ship barmaid Masha
Tadeusz Kasyanov
boatswain Matveich
Pavel Remezov
ship's doctor
Victor Zhiganov
sailor Igor Mikhailovich Stetsenko
Victor Gordeev
Yura Mikosha
Leonid Trutnev
radio operator
Nartai Begalin
machine gun pirate wearing a cap
Lactemir Dztiev
bearded pirate
Igor Klass
pirate Joachim Johannes Schweigert, aka Rolf Schneider, aka Kurt Winner (“I don't beat women”)
Bimbolat Kumalagov
mustachioed pirate attacking captain and ship's doctor during boarding
Gennadi Chetverikov
Hardy Pirate (bald, wearing dark glasses on his neck)
Alexander Bespaly
first officer
Igor Kashintsev
representative of a western company, pirate informant - Agent Lotos
Vladimir Smirnov
pompolit
Maija Eglite
ship librarian Aina