Attack from the Sea

The film tells a passage from the life of the Russian admiral Ushakov. The account rests on a historical footing. France opens aggressive wars. Russian and allied troops move to free Italy. A. V. Suvorov is at the head of them. At sea it is Ushakov’s operation that decides matters. The victory at the fortress of Corfu comes out of that. The work runs war film and biography together. The account moves around battles at sea. Ushakov, as a naval officer, is at the centre of it. Mikhail Pugovkin is in the cast too. Ivan Pereverzev is in the lead, with Sergey Bondarchuk and Georgiy Yumatov also in the cast, in Mikhail Romm’s Soviet film of 1953.