They Conquer the Skies (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.
- Released
- 1963-08-26
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tatyana Lioznova
- TMDB rating
- 8.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- 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
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