Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"!

Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"!
Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"!
Directed by	Mikhail Ershov
Written by	Stanislava Borisavlevich; Fyodor Shkubonya; Yuri Printsev;
Starring	Blazhenka Catalinich; Radmila Karaklaich; Vitaly Doronin; Boris Amarantov;
Cinematography	V. Komarov, R. Luzhanin
Edited by	Aleksandra Borovskaya
Music by	Andrey Petrov
Production; company	Lenfilm
Release date	1967;
Running time	76 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union; Yugoslavia
Languages	Russian; Serbo-Croatian

Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"! (Russian: Попутного ветра, «Синяя птица», romanized: Poputnogo vetra, «Sinyaya ptitsa») is a 1967 Soviet-Yugoslav children's adventure film directed by Mikhail Ershov, based on the eponymous story by Boris Kosier.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Aboard the schooner "Blue Bird" traveling on the Adriatic are schoolchildren, winners of the questionnaire "For Peace and Mutual Understanding". Taking advantage of the fact that the ship, when entering the ports, is released from customs inspection, an international gang organizes the delivery of a consignment of drugs. Mrs. Rips, an observer from the Society for the Patronage of Animals and her companion, the circus Lorimur act as couriers.

A radio amateur from the US, schoolboy Ralph and his Yugoslav friend, Milan, consider the behavior of Monsieur Vilar, the pediatrician attached to the expedition, as very strange. The guys arrange for him to be followed until it turns out that the doctor is an agent of Interpol, and the real offender is Lorimur. After the refusal of Mrs. Rips to dine at the same table with a boy from Senegal, by decision of the general meeting, she is dropped off at the nearest port. The remaining companion is forced to request help from gangsters on the radio.

During the performance at an improvised concert, the guys search the artist's cabin and find the drugs hidden in paint tubes. Lorimur reaches the island on a lifeboat, but is captured by Ralph and Milan, who pursued him. The captain with the sailors and Monsieur Vilar arrives in time to arrest the fugitive, and later the gangster who appears behind the cargo.