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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
Leonid Agranovich, Anatoliy Agranovskiy
Oleg Zhakov
Basargin
Ivan Ryzhov
flight inspector
Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot
Rudolf Pankov
pilot
Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor
Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina
Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot
Vladimir Rautbart
constructor
Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev
Vadim Zakharchenko
drunk assembler
Vladimir Smirnov
pilot
Georgiy Kulikov
constructor
Pavel Tarasov
old constructor
Nikolay Grabbe
constructor
Nikolai Barmin
engineer-constructor
Nikolai Romanov
doctor (uncredited)
Sergei Blinnikov
constructor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
secretary
Vladislav Kovalkov
pilot (uncredited)
Yan Yanakiyev
constructor
Vladimir Sedov
Sharov
Boris Kordunov
constructor
Mariya Lvova
doctor
Sergey Bobrov
constructor
Lev Barashkov
test-pilot
Isay Gurov
constructor
Klavdiya Lepanova
constructor
Yelena Rybnikova
Kolchin's daughter
Vladimir Prikhodko
pilot-major (uncredited)
Lev Lobov
pilot (uncredited)
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