

Wait For Me, Islands!
1978, Russian. Directed by Nikolai Lebedev & Iosif Shapiro.
A touching story about a teenager who dreams of growing up as soon as possible and discovering unknown islands. In the meantime, having scored another two and being offended by his father for the breakdown of an elegant sailboat made with his own hands, he runs away from home, wherever his eyes look - suddenly along the way he will come across an island that has not yet been discovered by anyone. And by doing so, he raises the police, the school, relatives and friends to their feet...
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 February 1978
- Original title
- Ждите меня, острова!
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Leonid Pochivalov, Aleksandr Popov
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Wait For Me, Islands! runs 79 minutes (1h 19m).
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Wait For Me, Islands! isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 February 1978. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Wait For Me, Islands!?
Wait For Me, Islands! (1978) was directed by Nikolai Lebedev and Iosif Shapiro and stars Afanasi Kochetkov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Liliya Gurova.