Baltic Skies
1960
163 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
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
Pavel Usovnichenko
Proskuryakov
Pantelejmon Krymov
Khovrin
Oleg Borisov
Tatarenko
Pavel Luspekayev
Kuznetsov
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Gromeko
Lyudmila Volynskaya
Anna Stepanovna
Valentina Chemberg
Antonina Trofimovna
Mikhail Ladygin
commander
Vladimir Volchik
political party organizer
Stepan Krylov
Sharapov
Boris Arakelov
driver
Georgi Zhzhyonov
driver
Ivan Selianin
blockade man
Igor Bogolyubov
pilot
Yevgeni Goryunov
"Red Star" correspondent
Viktor Kharitonov
Ryabushkin
Arkadi Trusov
orderly messenger (uncredited)
Nikolay Gavrilov
driver (uncredited)
Pavel Pervushin
wounded man (uncredited)
Oleg Khromenkov
partisan (uncredited)
Vera Titova
correspondent (uncredited)
Ivan Krasko
pilot (uncredited)
Anatoliy Garichev
driver (uncredited)
Vladimir Maryev
general (uncredited)
Aleksandr Strelnikov
pilot (uncredited)
Antonina Shuranova
blockade woman (uncredited)
Yuri Dedovich
pilot (uncredited)
V. Volkov
Vladimir Maksimov
Kuzma Kresnitskiy
sergeant major