97 minutes
8/26/1963
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.
Nikolai Rybnikov
as Kolchin
Vladimir Sedov
as Sharov
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Nina Kolchina
Evgeniy Evstigneev
as main constructor
Oleg Zhakov
as Basargin
Sergei Blinnikov
as constructor
Georgiy Kulikov
as constructor
Nikolay Pogodin
as test-pilot
Sergey Bobrov
as constructor
Pavel Tarasov
as old constructor
Lev Zolotukhin
as Gordeyev
Pyotr Shcherbakov
as test-pilot
Vladimir Rautbart
as constructor
Ivan Ryzhov
as flight inspector
Lev Barashkov
as test-pilot
Vadim Zakharchenko
as drunk assembler
Yan Yanakiyev
as constructor
Nikolai Barmin
as engineer-constructor
Nikolay Grabbe
as constructor
Isay Gurov
as constructor
Boris Kordunov
as constructor
Mariya Lvova
as doctor
Klavdiya Lepanova
as constructor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as secretary
Rudolf Pankov
as pilot
Vladimir Smirnov
as pilot
Yelena Rybnikova
as Kolchin's daughter
Vladimir Prikhodko
as pilot-major (uncredited)
Nikolai Romanov
as doctor (uncredited)
Lev Lobov
as pilot (uncredited)
Vladislav Kovalkov
as pilot (uncredited)