Film Screening: By The Bluest of Seas by Boris Barnet

Sands Films Cinema Club presents Films of 1936.

By the Bluest of Seas is a 1936 Soviet romantic comedy film by Russian director Boris Barnet.
The story centers on a love triangle between two castaways and a woman from a collective farm on a Soviet Azerbaijani island in the Caspian Sea.

Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working as sailor and mechanic for the fishing boats of the “Lights of the Communism” kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love with the beautiful Misha.

Directors: Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov (co-director) (as S. Mardanin)
Writer: Klimenti Mints
Stars: Alexei Dolinin, Sergey Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina, Nikolay Kryuchkov

In Russian with English subtitles.