They Conquer the Skies
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
Cast
Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot
Pavel Tarasov
old constructor
Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev
Nikolai Barmin
engineer-constructor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
secretary
Vladimir Smirnov
pilot
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina
Oleg Zhakov
Basargin
Rudolf Pankov
pilot
Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor
Georgiy Kulikov
constructor
Sergey Bobrov
constructor
Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot
Nikolay Grabbe
constructor
Boris Kordunov
constructor
Vladislav Kovalkov
pilot (uncredited)
Vladimir Rautbart
constructor
Ivan Ryzhov
flight inspector
Vadim Zakharchenko
drunk assembler
Yan Yanakiyev
constructor
Nikolai Romanov
doctor (uncredited)
Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
Sergei Blinnikov
constructor