A Sleepless Night

A Sleepless Night

1960 · 93 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama

Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his fiancee Nina, an architect by profession, is arriving in Siberia. However, besides Pavel, fellow students came to the station to meet her — Petunin's brother and sister, in whose house she is staying. Soon Annushka, who has long loved Pavel, arrives. From that day on, he had trouble after trouble. After a crane accident, which happened through his fault, the hero pulls himself together and does everything to regain the confidence of the brigade...

Directed by Isidor Annensky · Written by Vasiliy Solovyov

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Yuriy Solomin Pavel Kaurov
Evgeniy Samoylov Pavel's Father
Lyudmila Chernyshyova Pavel's Mother
Dzhemma Osmolovskaya Annushka
Margarita Volodina Nina
Aleksandr Grave Yevgeni Petunin
Luiza Koshukova Tamara Petunina
Gennadi Karnovich-Valua Zubkov
Aleksei Gribov Batavin
Andrei Tutyshkin Vlasyuk
Ivan Lyubeznov Dubovik
Yuri Medvedev Pulin

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