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