

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