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They Conquer the Skies
1963, Aug 26
1h 37m
The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.
Directed by
Tatyana Lioznova
Written by
Anatoliy Agranovskiy, Leonid Agranovich
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina
Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev
Nikolay Grabbe
constructor
Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot
Nikolai Barmin
engineer-constructor
Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor
Vladimir Sedov
Sharov
Oleg Zhakov
Basargin
Ivan Ryzhov
flight inspector
Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
Sergei Blinnikov
constructor
Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot
Yan Yanakiyev
constructor
Vladimir Smirnov
pilot
Vladimir Rautbart
constructor
Vadim Zakharchenko
drunk assembler
Pavel Tarasov
old constructor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
secretary
Rudolf Pankov
pilot
Lev Lobov
pilot (uncredited)
Boris Kordunov
constructor
Mariya Lvova
doctor
Vladimir Prikhodko
pilot-major (uncredited)
Nikolai Romanov
doctor (uncredited)
Vladislav Kovalkov
pilot (uncredited)
Georgiy Kulikov
constructor
Sergey Bobrov
constructor
Lev Barashkov
test-pilot
Isay Gurov
constructor
Klavdiya Lepanova
constructor
Yelena Rybnikova
Kolchin's daughter
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