A Sleepless Night

Watch A Sleepless Night (1960) online on iFILM — a Soviet drama directed by Isidor Annensky, with Yuri Solomin in an early screen role. Fresh out of institute, engineer Pavel Kaurov takes his first assignment in the Siberian port town of Sibirsk, put in charge of a crew running gantry and floating cranes.

He gets the hang of the work. His personal life is harder to manage. His fiancée Nina, an architect, travels in from Moscow — and she is not the only woman waiting for Pavel in Sibirsk. When a crane accident he is directly responsible for shakes the whole brigade's trust in him, Pavel has to rebuild not just his professional standing but his entire sense of who he is. Stream A Sleepless Night online on iFILM.