Fifteen-Year-Old Captain is a 1945 Soviet adventure film directed by Vasily Zhuravlyov.

Plot

The whaling brig "Pilgrim," commanded by the experienced Captain Gulya, arrives in Auckland, where it takes aboard passengers, including the family of shipowner James Weldon. In open waters, the travelers come across drifting wreckage from a ship and discover several surviving African Americans. Soon, the captain and other whalers set off in a small boat to hunt whales but disappear into the ocean. Fifteen-year-old cabin boy Dick Sand, along with the rescued African Americans, is left to take on the roles of both captain and crew in order to deliver the passengers to South America.