Dima Gorin's Career

Dima Gorin's Career (Russian: Карьера Димы Горина) is a 1961 Soviet domedy film directed by Frunze Dovlatyan and Lev Mirsky.

Plot
The film tells about the employee of the savings bank, who as a result of his mistake was forced to go to the construction site in Siberia, where he found his love.

Vaska (Alexander Metelkin), fifteen and a half years old, gets on the rescue tug “Kola”. The goal of Vaska is to get to Murmansk.

In the first minutes on the ship he saw a stern and taciturn boatswain Zosima Semenovich Wolverine (Boris Andreev). Vaska sympathizes with the boatswain. There was a dispute between the boatswain and Marat Chepin (Valentin Nikulin): whoever loses the table football game should shave off half the mustache, and not touch the other half before leaving Murmansk. At the time of summing up the game, Vaska supports the boatswain, and he wins the argument.

Restless Vaska at the previous place of work managed to break the diesel engine. He does not leave his passion for learning technology in tow. Nevertheless, he accidentally floods the cabin of the starpom, and at the same time falls overboard. The boatswain Wolverine jumps overboard and rescues Vaska. The captain makes a decision to write Vaska ashore, but Vaska very much asks to leave him in tow, because he wants to go on it and be a lifeguard. Vaska is left in tow by an apprentice minder.

"Kola" should go to the distant islands behind the ship "Polotsk", which has been damaged there since the Great Patriotic War. Before entering the sea, Wolverine quarrels with a front-line friend, gets drunk and finds himself in a sobering-up center, where he comes across a drunkard Velikankin (Georgy Vitsin). The old man has to bail out Wolverine from the detoxification center.

Wolverine goes from a detox to the port and meets Mary (Lyubov Sokolova), who once worked on a seiner with him, along the way. Maria says that she has a son, Andrei, from him. Zosima is lost in thought. Maria leaves the bus, but on the evening of the same day, Wolverine finds her. They come to Mary’s home, Wolverine wants to see his son, but doesn’t find him at home - he ran away to dance. Wolverine is trying to explain herself to Maria, to get her to forgive and accept him again, but the conversation does not work.

The tugboat goes to sea and after some time it moors to the Polotsk. The captain of Kola Gastev (Oleg Zhakov) once went on this ship with Wolverine. The boatswain with the captain visiting the old ship, recalling the dead comrades.

A team led by Wolverine landed on Polotsk. The team consists of Vaska, Chepin, Bruno (Bruno Oya). The vessel gives a leak, and all the way they must pump out water and stand at the helm. Ships set off. "Polotsk" does not have its own move and goes in tow for the "Cola". Send a storm warning. At Polotsk, a pump breaks down, pumping water. The boatswain descends into the hold to Vaska to find out how things are. A conversation ensues, and the boatswain, who has managed to fall in love with Vaska, promises to introduce him to his son upon returning to Murmansk.

Despite the storm, Wolverine reports to the Coke that everything is in order and the ship is ready to go.

A radiogram arrives that thirty miles from the Kola, the Odessa timber carrier is dying: it has lost its course and is being carried by storm to the Kanin reefs. The Cola captain contacts Wolverine and tells him everything. They have only one way out: Kola should leave Polotsk and go at full speed to save the timber carrier. At the same time, if the “Polotsk” is not kept nose to the wave, it will lie on board and begin to scoop up water, and this is certain death for the ship and crew. Wolverine does not want to discuss this with the team, but the walkie-talkie is turned on, and the team (except Vaska, who is busy in the hold of the pump) learns about everything. Wolverine is against giving the tow rope - he “played enough with death”, he must “return to his pier.”

At such an acute moment, the team is divided into two camps: Bruno and Chepin for giving the cable, Vaska supports Wolverine. Chepin passionately calls for self-sacrifice in the name of saving human lives, Wolverine fiercely objects to him, and then Vaska utters only one phrase: "I would not like to have such a father." Hearing it, Wolverine himself makes a decision and cuts the cable - now Kola can go to the rescue truck in full swing.

Wolverine gives orders in the event of the death of the ship: "Whoever throws him alive ashore, go right, there is a lighthouse, you will be saved there."

Polotsk throws it onto the rocks, almost the entire ship goes under water, only the bow and the deckhouse are on the surface. Three team members are alive, although they freeze in an icy wind. And the mortally wounded Wolverine (he hit his head when he tried to fix the cable on the shore) is dying, although help is already close.

Cast

 * Aleksandr Demyanenko as Dima Gorin
 * Tatyana Konyukhova
 * Rifat Aliyev
 * Valentina Ananina
 * Vitali Chermenyov
 * V. Dmitriyeva
 * Igor Dolin