The Beginning of the Legend (1977)
The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.
- Released
- 1977-04-11
- Genres
- War, Drama, Family
- Runtime
- 62 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Boris Grigorev
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Larisa Luzhina as Anna Timofeyevna
- Georgi Burkov as Aleksei Ivanovich
- Oleg Orlov as Yura
- Svetlana Ponomaryova as Nastya
- Maya Bulgakova as Kseniya Gerasimovna
- Vilnis Bekeris as Albert
- Boris Grigorev as Dronov
- Sergei Novikov as Valya
- Aleksandr Kavalerov as polizei-translator
- Vladimir Gusev as pilot
- Yuriy Grigorev as pilot
- Afanasi Kochetkov as Kuzma
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