They Conquer the Skies
1963 · 97 min · Drama
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.
- Director
- Tatyana Lioznova
- Writers
- Leonid Agranovich, Anatoliy Agranovskiy
- Released
- August 26, 1963
- Language
- Russian
Cast
Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
Vladimir Sedov
Sharov
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina
Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor
Oleg Zhakov
Basargin
Sergei Blinnikov
constructor
Georgiy Kulikov
constructor
Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot
Sergey Bobrov
constructor
Pavel Tarasov
old constructor
Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev
Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot
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