163 minutes
6/6/1960
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.
Pyotr Glebov
as Lunin
Vsevolod Platov
as Serov
Mikhail Ulyanov
as Rassokhin
Rolan Bykov
as Kabankov
Mikhail Kozakov
as Baiseitov
Nikolai Klyuchnev
as Chepyolkin
Inna Kondratyeva
as Mariya Sergeyevna
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Sonya
Viktor Perevalov
as Slava
Aleksandr Violinov
as Mednikov
Eve Kivi
as Hilda
Fyodor Shmakov
as Uvarov
Pavel Usovnichenko
as Proskuryakov
Pantelejmon Krymov
as Khovrin
Oleg Borisov
as Tatarenko
Pavel Luspekayev
as Kuznetsov
Vladislav Strzhelchik
as Gromeko
Lyudmila Volynskaya
as Anna Stepanovna
Valentina Chemberg
as Antonina Trofimovna
Mikhail Ladygin
as commander
Vladimir Volchik
as political party organizer
Stepan Krylov
as Sharapov
Boris Arakelov
as driver
Georgi Zhzhyonov
as driver
Ivan Selianin
as blockade man
Igor Bogolyubov
as pilot
Yevgeni Goryunov
as "Red Star" correspondent
Viktor Kharitonov
as Ryabushkin
Arkadi Trusov
as orderly messenger (uncredited)
Nikolay Gavrilov
as driver (uncredited)
Pavel Pervushin
as wounded man (uncredited)
Oleg Khromenkov
as partisan (uncredited)
Vera Titova
as correspondent (uncredited)
Ivan Krasko
as pilot (uncredited)
Anatoliy Garichev
as driver (uncredited)
Vladimir Maryev
as general (uncredited)
Aleksandr Strelnikov
as pilot (uncredited)
Antonina Shuranova
as blockade woman (uncredited)
Yuri Dedovich
as pilot (uncredited)
V. Volkov
Vladimir Maksimov
Kuzma Kresnitskiy
as sergeant major