Passenger from the "Equator"

A young swimmer Ilmar is sailing on the ship Equator in a summer camp located somewhere on the shore of the Black Sea . By chance, he witnesses a strange event: one of the passengers, a foreigner (he's a magician and a “merchant”), Mr. Pipp, secretly throws a suspicious object (a beacon) into the sea. Pipp discovers the boy and, fearing exposure, pushes him overboard, and no one notices this on the ship.

Some time later, the leader of the pioneer detachment discovers Ilmar, on the shores of the stormy sea, who does not remember how he ended up in the water. Everything looks as if he fell into the water from the pier. Soon Ilmar and his new friends in the pioneer camp will again meet with a mysterious foreigner ...

• Yuri Kryukov - Ilmar
• Yuri Püss - Glenn
• Vyacheslav Tsupa - Andre
• Victor Morus - Igor
• Tatyana Goryachkina - Galya
• Igor Pushakov - Taratuta
• Sergey Makridin - Zhenya
• Mikhail Volkov - Philip Maximovich Klyuchik, hydroacoustic engineer
• Alexander Martynov - Marat, the leader
• Arina Aleinikova - Natasha, nurse
• Vladimir Kenigson - Pavel Alexandrovich Gabush
• Yuri Chekulaev - Mr. Pipp, passenger "merchant"
• Nikolay Gorlov - “Lun”, old man
• Tamara Yarenko - Tamara Yakovlevna Kalinina, head of the pioneer camp
• Leonid Dovlatov - doctor
• Leonid Okunev

Voiceover

• Elena Kamburova - performance of the song “ Little Prince ”

• Screenwriter: Arnold Neggo
• Director: Alexander Kurochkin
• Operator: Yuri Malinovsky
• Artist: Maria Fateeva
• Composer: Michael Tariverdiev
• Lyrics: Nikolai Dobronravov
• Sound engineer: Boris Golev
• Conductor: David Shtilman
• Song sings: Elena Kamburova
• Staging tricks: Harutyun Hakobyan

• Production: Gorky Film Studio .
• Feature film, single-series, television, color.

• The film was filmed at once in two pioneer camps: IDP "Artek" and "Cascade" in the city of Alushta . In some scenes, plans shot in both camps are mounted. . Filming took place also in the camp "Kastel" (campfire and stadium).
• In the film, Dmitry Kabalevsky 's song “Good night, Artek!” Sounds, but the soundtrack is recorded in such a way that the word “Artek” is not audible.
• At the beginning of the picture, the phrase of Filipp Maksimovich Klyuchik, addressed to Ilmar - “When you run into plenty, look into the cabin, otherwise it’s boring for me without you”, immediately after the first screenings of the film in 1968, it was muffled by the sound of the steamboat horn. In the mid-90s, the original audio track was restored.

• "Passenger from Equator" on Cinema — Theater website (inaccessible link)