They Conquer the Skies
Им покоряется небо
Release: 1963-08-26
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 7.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studios
Cast
Nikolay Pogodin
as test-pilot
Nikolai Rybnikov
as Kolchin
Oleg Zhakov
as Basargin
Georgiy Kulikov
as constructor
Lev Zolotukhin
as Gordeyev
Ivan Ryzhov
as flight inspector
Vadim Zakharchenko
as drunk assembler
Boris Kordunov
as constructor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as secretary
Nikolai Romanov
as doctor (uncredited)
Evgeniy Evstigneev
as main constructor
Sergey Bobrov
as constructor
Pavel Tarasov
as old constructor
Rudolf Pankov
as pilot
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Nina Kolchina
Pyotr Shcherbakov
as test-pilot
Vladimir Rautbart
as constructor
Nikolay Grabbe
as constructor
Mariya Lvova
as doctor
Nikolai Barmin
as engineer-constructor
Vladimir Sedov
as Sharov
Yan Yanakiyev
as constructor
Sergei Blinnikov
as constructor
Vladimir Smirnov
as pilot
Lev Lobov
as pilot (uncredited)
Vladislav Kovalkov
as pilot (uncredited)
