| On Thin Ice | |
| Director: | Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh |
| Starring: | Viktor Korshunov Feliks Yavorskiy Alexey Eybozhenko Mikhail Gluzsky Izolda Izvitskaya Aleksey Alekseev |
| Music: | Mieczysław Weinberg |
| Cinematography: | Nikolay Olonovskiy |
| Editing: | Aleksandra Kamagorova |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
| Distributor: | Gosfilm |
| Runtime: | 175 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
On Thin Ice is a 1966 Soviet spy film directed by Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh, based on Georgiy Bryantsev's 1961 book, which provided the first authoritative public description of counterintelligence group GUKR (SMERSH).[1] [2] [3]
Two NKVD agents fight foreign spies in the Oryol Oblast before and during the Second World War.[4]
On Thin Ice was released in the Soviet Union on 26 September 1966.[5]
It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1966, with 42.5 million tickets sold.[6]