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They Conquer the Skies (1963)
Directed by Tatyana Lioznova
Drama · 1h 37m
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.
Cast
Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
V
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
Crew
- Director
- Tatyana Lioznova
- Writer
- Anatoliy Agranovskiy, Leonid Agranovich
- Novel
- Anatoliy Agranovskiy
- Director of Photography
- Valeriy Ginzburg
- Original Music Composer
- Andrey Eshpay
- Editor
- Lidiya Rodionova, Kseniya Blinova
Details
- Original title
- Им покоряется небо
- Release date
- 1963-08-26
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Gorky Film Studios