Smoke in the Forest (film)
Smoke in the Forest (Russian: Дым в лесу) is a 1955 Soviet adventure film directed by Yuri Chulyukin and Yevgeny Karelov.[2][3] The film shows how saboteurs organize a fire in the forest and shoot down a Soviet military aircraft, endangering the life of the pilot. He meets a good-natured guy, lost in the woods who decides to help the pilot.[4] PlotBased on the eponymous story by Arkady Gaidar, the action of which is moved forward by two decades. In a small border village, a daring group of enemy saboteurs is active. They have set the forest on fire and shot down a plane that was observing them. The fire threatens to spread to a large factory, and the local residents have gone to assist the firefighters. Volodya Kurmakov, a neighbor's boy, persuaded Maria Sergeyevna, the wife of a missing pilot, to take him with her to the airfield. On the way back, during an emergency stop, Volodya went for a walk in the forest and got lost. After wandering for a while, he came upon a clearing where he found a crashed plane. Nearby, there was a wounded pilot, who sent the boy to the border guards, explaining the area where the arsonists should be searched. Starring
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