Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky.
The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.
Stars: Pyotr Glebov, Vsevolod Platov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Rolan Bykov, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Klyuchnev
Crew: Vladimir Vengerov (Director), Nikolai Chukovsky (Writer), Nikolai Chukovsky (Novel), Isaac Schwarts (Music), Genrikh Marandzhyan (Director of Photography), Stera Gorakova (Editor)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Lenfilm
Runtime: 163 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 06, 1960
IMDb: 5.6
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