BEST SOVIET MOVIES(ЛУЧШИЕ СОВЕТСКИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ): Maximka (film) / МАКСИМКА (1952)

1864 The Russian corvette “Bogatyr“ meets an American ship in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. In its hold there is a living commodity - blacks. Two days later, the sailors of the Bogatyr remove a black boy from the wreckage of an American ship wrecked by a storm. Intimidated and beaten down by slave traders, the little black man finds kind and sympathetic people in the Russian sailors. Soon the boy, nicknamed Maksimka by the sailors, becomes the favorite of the entire crew. The sailor Luchkin becomes especially passionately attached to the boy. Love for Maksimka helps Luchkin, who sought to drown in wine the grave feeling of insult inflicted on him by the tyrant landowner, to regain the meaning and purpose of existence. The little black boy pays his older Russian friend with tender affection. He actively helps the Bogatyr crew rescue Luchkin from captivity on an American ship, where he was forcibly dragged by labor recruiters. For the resourcefulness and courage shown in saving Luchkin, the capta