Baltic Skies (1960)

Plot Summary

Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.

Full Cast & Characters

Pyotr Glebov

Lunin

Vsevolod Platov

Serov

Mikhail Ulyanov

Rassokhin

Rolan Bykov

Kabankov

Mikhail Kozakov

Baiseitov

Nikolai Klyuchnev

Chepyolkin

Inna Kondratyeva

Mariya Sergeyevna

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Sonya

Viktor Perevalov

Slava

Aleksandr Violinov

Mednikov

Eve Kivi

Hilda

Fyodor Shmakov

Uvarov

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