They Conquer the Skies (1963)
Им покоряется небо
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.
- Date of release
- 1963-08-26
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tatyana Lioznova
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
They Conquer the Skies is a 1963 Soviet drama film directed by Tatyana Lioznova.
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