Men of the Sea also known as Baltic Sailors (Russian: Балтийцы, romanized: Baltiytsy) is a 1938 Soviet war film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer.
With the help of a British landing force, General M. Yudenich's troops are advancing on Petrograd... On one of the anxious days of 1918, a Bolshevik named Vikhoryev returns from the front with a detachment of sailors.
That same night, he is summoned to the Kronstadt Revolutionary Military Council, where Central Committee member Vavilov informs him that Vikhoryev has been appointed as the commissar of a destroyer division.
Under his influence, the crew changes: sailor Fedya Kolosov, who had been removed from the ship for disorganization, dies heroically for the revolution at the end of the film.
Trying to inform the Soviet command about the enemy's landing, signalman Kolosov climbs the mast and signals the necessary message with a flashlight.