The Squadron Turns Westward
1966, Russian. Directed by Miron Bilinskiy & Mykola Vinhranovskyi.
The action takes place in Odesa in 1918-1919. At the request of General Denikin, a French squadron arrives in Odesa to restore order in the city. Odesa Bolsheviks are trying to convince the sailors to leave the city. At the center of the story is the heroic fate of Frenchwoman Jeanne-Marie Lyabourb (1877-1919), shot by French interventionists.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Miron BilinskiyDirector
- Mykola VinhranovskyiDirector
- Elza LezhdeyJeanne Labourbe
- Nelli LazarevaYelena Sokolovskaya
- Adolf ShestakovNikolay Sergeyevich Lastochkin
- Roman KhomyatovAndrey
- Stanislav ChekanPanas Marshuk
- Vyacheslav ShalevichMichel
- Andrey Faytd'Anselme
- Georgios SovchisSashko
- Boris PetelinKotovskiy (Kharchenko)
- Dmytro MilyutenkoColonel Ferambe
- Volodymyr DalskyiKhomyakov
- Elvira BrunovskayaVera Kholodnaya
Details
- Released
- 4 April 1966
- Original title
- Эскадра уходит на запад
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Miron Bilinskiy, Aleksandr Levada
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The Squadron Turns Westward runs 85 minutes (1h 25m).
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The Squadron Turns Westward isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 April 1966. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Squadron Turns Westward?
The Squadron Turns Westward (1966) was directed by Miron Bilinskiy and Mykola Vinhranovskyi and stars Elza Lezhdey, Nelli Lazareva, Adolf Shestakov.