Midshipman Panin

Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mikhail Shveitser

Status Released

Release Date 1960-05-23

Storyline

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.