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Pirates of the 20th Century

1980·83 min

Pirates of the 20th Century

Directed by Boris Durov

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A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.

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Nikolay Eryomenko

senior mechanic Sergey Sergeevich "Grandfather"

Pyotr Velyaminov

the captain of the cargo ship "Nezhin" Ivan Ilyich

Talgat Nigmatulin

the pirate Saleh, "Baby", aka Lee Guang, Nguyen Cho

pirate captain "Master"

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Yevgeni Gevorgyan

Original Music Composer

Aleksandr Rybin

Director of Photography

Stanislav Govorukhin

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Dilorom Kambarova

Maa Islander

Natalya Khorokhorina

ship barmaid Masha

ship librarian Aina

Tadeusz Kasyanov

boatswain Matveich

ship's doctor

Victor Zhiganov

sailor Igor Mikhailovich Stetsenko

Viktor Gordeyev

Yura Mikosha

Georgi Martirosyan

George Klyuev

radio operator

machine gun pirate wearing a cap

Lactemir Dztiev

bearded pirate

Vladimir Episkoposyan

bearded pirate ("give a hand, Noah")

pirate Joachim Johannes Schweigert, aka Rolf Schneider, aka Kurt Winner (“I don't beat women”)

Bimbolat Kumalagov

mustachioed pirate attacking captain and ship's doctor during boarding

Gennadi Chetverikov

Hardy Pirate (bald, wearing dark glasses on his neck)

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Pirates of the 20th Century (1980) is about a Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.

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Boris Durov directed Pirates of the 20th Century (1980).

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