Heavy Water (1979)
The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.
Top billed cast
Boris BorisovАрнольд Петрович
Boris GusakovЮрий Алексеевич
Sergei DesnitskyБорис Антонович Галаев
Gennadi ShkuratovГеоргий Максимович
Anatoli BarchukИгорь Павлович
Leonid YanovskiyКовалёв
Yuriy Mysenkovпомошник командира
Serhiy PidhornyiИгорь Девушкин
Viktor MamayevВасилий Мидядько
Gennadi Bolotovштурман
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