On Thin Ice
Poster
Directed byDamir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
Written byIvan Bakurinsky
Based onPo tonkomu ldu
by Georgiy Bryantsev
StarringViktor Korshunov
Feliks Yavorskiy
Alexey Eybozhenko
Mikhail Gluzsky
Izolda Izvitskaya
Aleksey Alekseev
CinematographyNikolay Olonovskiy
Edited byAleksandra Kamagorova
Music byMieczysław Weinberg
Production
company
Distributed byGosfilm
Release date
26 September 1966
Running time
175 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

On Thin Ice (Russian: По тонкому льду, romanized: Po tonkomu ldu) is a 1966 Soviet spy film directed by Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh, based on Georgiy Bryantsev's 1961 book, which provided the first authoritative public description of counterintelligence group GUKR (SMERSH).[1][2][3]

Plot

Two NKVD agents fight foreign spies in the Oryol Oblast before and during the Second World War.[4]

Release

On Thin Ice was released in the Soviet Union on 26 September 1966.[5]

It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1966, with 42.5 million tickets sold.[6]

References

  1. Kozhevnikov, A. IU (January 15, 2004). Крылатые фразы и афоризмы отечественного кино. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. ISBN 9785765425671 via Google Books.
  2. Раззаков, Федор (September 5, 2017). Скандалы советской эпохи. Litres. ISBN 9785425088208 via Google Books.
  3. "East Europe". East Europe Publishing Company. January 15, 1965 via Google Books.
  4. "Он смело шёл по тонкому льду | "Открытая газета"". www.opengaz.ru.
  5. "Po kruchym lodzie / Po tonkomu ldu" via www.filmweb.pl.
  6. Kudryavtsev, Sergey (4 July 2006). "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате" [Domestic Films in Soviet Film Distribution]. LiveJournal (in Russian). Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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