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A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.


WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.

Ivan Mykolaichuk
Kurganov

Leonid Bykov
Makarenko

Kostiantyn Stepankov
Miklós

Andrii Sova
boatswain

Aleksei Smirnov
Sigayev

Lyudmila Marchenko
Marie

Vitaliy Doroshenko
Kashkin

Vladimir Yemelyanov
general

Lavrenti Masokha
Carlosi

Valerii Panarin
scout
The Scouts is a war, adventure film released in 1968. Directed by Ihor Samborskyi, it stars Ivan Mykolaichuk, Leonid Bykov, Kostiantyn Stepankov. WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.
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