Pirates of the 20th Century

Name: Pirates of the 20th Century
Genre: Adventure, Action, Crime
Released: 1980-07-14
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Nikolay Eryomenko, Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Rein Aren, Dilorom Kambarova

Пираты XX века (1980)

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Production

Genre

Adventure, Action, Crime

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Director

Boris Durov

Actors

Nikolay Eryomenko, Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Rein Aren, Dilorom Kambarova, Natalya Khorokhorina, Maija Eglite, Tadeusz Kasyanov, Pavel Remezov, Victor Zhiganov
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Scenario

Stanislav Govorukhin

Producer

Lev Grubman, Igor Zuev

Camera operator

Aleksandr Rybin

Composer

Yevgeni Gevorgyan

Artist

Boris Komyakov

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Editing

Rimma Tsegelnitskaya
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

During filming, Eremenko trained intensively with a karate coach.
In the early 90s, Nikolai Eremenko had the idea to film a sequel to 'Pirates,' but at that time, during a period of deep crisis for domestic cinema, sufficient funding for the film could not be found. Eremenko returned to this idea a second time in 1998, but it was thwarted by the sudden onset of the economic crisis in Russia...
In one of the film's scenes (a jump from a cliff onto the roof of a motor ship), the actor jumped into the water next to the ship's hull. While surfacing, Nikolai Eremenko almost ended up under the running propellers of the ship passing directly above him. By a miracle, the actor managed to swim a safe distance away from the propellers.
Morning screenings on weekdays often had to be canceled because entire classes of schoolchildren would skip lessons to watch 'Pirates'.
The film's director initially refused to cast Nikolai Eremenko in the lead role, but after Nikolai demonstrated his physical fitness by performing an impressive flip and showing off his well-developed musculature, the actor was immediately cast.