Baltic Skies

Baltic Skies

163 mins | Drama, War | June 6, 1960

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.

Baltic Skies

163 mins | Drama, War | June 6, 1960

Baltic Skies
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Балтийское небо
Directors Vladimir Vengerov
Writers Nikolai Chukovsky

Cast

Pyotr Glebov

as Lunin

Vsevolod Platov

as Serov

Mikhail Ulyanov

as Rassokhin

Rolan Bykov

as Kabankov

Mikhail Kozakov

as Baiseitov

Nikolai Klyuchnev

as Chepyolkin

Inna Kondratyeva

as Mariya Sergeyevna

Viktor Perevalov

as Slava

Aleksandr Violinov

as Mednikov

Eve Kivi

as Hilda

Fyodor Shmakov

as Uvarov

Pavel Usovnichenko

as Proskuryakov

Pantelejmon Krymov

as Khovrin

Oleg Borisov

as Tatarenko

Pavel Luspekayev

as Kuznetsov

Lyudmila Volynskaya

as Anna Stepanovna

Mikhail Ladygin

as commander

Valentina Chemberg

as Antonina Trofimovna

Vladimir Volchik

as political party organizer

Stepan Krylov

as Sharapov

Boris Arakelov

as driver

Georgi Zhzhyonov

as driver

Ivan Selianin

as blockade man

Igor Bogolyubov

as pilot

Yevgeni Goryunov

as "Red Star" correspondent

Viktor Kharitonov

as Ryabushkin

Arkadi Trusov

as orderly messenger (uncredited)

Nikolay Gavrilov

as driver (uncredited)

Pavel Pervushin

as wounded man (uncredited)

Oleg Khromenkov

as partisan (uncredited)

Vera Titova

as correspondent (uncredited)

Anatoliy Garichev

as driver (uncredited)

Ivan Krasko

as pilot (uncredited)

Vladimir Maryev

as general (uncredited)

Aleksandr Strelnikov

as pilot (uncredited)

Antonina Shuranova

as blockade woman (uncredited)

Yuri Dedovich

as pilot (uncredited)