this relatively unknown 1959 movie from soviet director mikhail kalatozov be a great adventure film . a guide and three geologist go to the virgin forest of central siberia in order to find diamond . the geologist include sabinin and the old leader and the young and nerdy andrei and the pretty tania and who be andrei fiancé . soon and the guide will start have strong feeling toward tania ( the movie seem to imply you should never include a beautiful woman in an otherwise all male expedition ) . diamond will be eventually find and but before they can return to civilization and the team will be engulf by a vast forest fire and and they will die one by one . this film may be nothing more than a paean to muscular soviet man ( and woman ) and but it be very well do . the black and white photography be astonish while there be a particular scene of the young couple run through the forest at high speed that be extremely beautiful while at time and the scene be so realistic one wonder how they do this ( do they actually put the actor next to a real forest fire . ) .