"The White Curse" is a 1987 Soviet feature film based on the novel of the same name by the writer Vladimir Sanin .
| White curse | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Producer | Nikolay Kovalsky |
| Author script | Igor Fedorov |
| In the main cast | Lembit Ulfsack Alexandra Yakovleva |
| Film company | Lenfilm , Second Creative Association |
| Duration | 81 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1987 |
Story
The high season is at the Terskol ski resort. Numerous vacationers ski, have fun and have fun. And only the workers of the avalanche service understand that a deadly threat looms over the resort: after a heavy snowfall a gigantic avalanche can descend.
Maxim Uvarov, the head of the avalanche station, forbids tourists from leaving the hotel. His actions cause discontent both the authorities of the resort, and vacationers. The authorities suffer losses due to the idleness of the ski lift, the tourists are completely indignant: they came to ride, and not to be locked up. Some of them secretly get out of the hotel. Retribution for carelessness is not long in coming ...
Cast
- Lembit Ulfsak - Maxim Uvarov, head of the avalanche service (voiced by Yuri Belyaev)
- Alexandra Yakovleva - Katya, stewardess from Irkutsk (in the credits of Alexandra Aasmäe)
- Victor Bychkov - Stepan Nail, an avalanche worker
- Larisa Guzeeva - Nadezhda Sergeevna, doctor
- Igor Dmitriev - tourist from Germany
- Gennady Nilov - Petukhov
- Anna Tweleneva - Elizaveta Dmitrievna
- Lyubov Malinovskaya - Anna Fedorovna, mother of Maxim Uvarov
- Valentin Kamergoyev - Murad Hadzhievich
- Andrey Pavlovets - Tolya, buddy Katya
- Bagand Magomedov - Osman, the demolitionist (as credited - Bogand Magomedov)
Camera crew
- Script writer: Igor Fedorov
- Stage Director: Nikolay Kovalsky
- Operator: Nikolay Stroganov
- Artist: Larisa Shilova
- Composer: Victor Lebedev