Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

92 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance, War | Oct. 14, 1973

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

92 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance, War | Oct. 14, 1973

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Dovzhenko Film Studios
Original title В бой идут одни старики
Directors Leonid Bykov
Writers Leonid Bykov, Aleksandr Satsky, Yevgeni Onopriyenko

Cast

Leonid Bykov

as Captain Alexey “Maestro” Titarenko

Sergei Ivanov

as Lieutenant "Grasshopper" Alexandrov

Rustam Sagdullaev

as Lieutenant "Romeo" Sagdullayev

Yevgeniya Simonova

as Masha Popova

Vladimir Talashko

as Senior Lieutenant Sergey Skvortsov

Olga Mateshko

as Captain Zoya Molchanova

Viktor Miroshnichenko

as Major Ivan Ermakov, Regiment Commander

Aleksei Smirnov

as Mechanic Makarych

Aleksandr Milyutin

as 1st Squadron Pilot

Dmytro Myrhorodskyi

as Infantry Battalion

Alim Fedorinsky

as Alyabyev

Vano Yantbelidze

as Lieutenant Vano Kobakhidze

Oleksandr Nemchenko

as Ivan Fedorovich

Viloriy Pashchenko

as Vorobyov

Yuriy Sarantsev

as Vasily Vasilievich, Air Division Commander

Valentin Makarov

as Regiment Chief of Staff

Leonid Marchenko

as Petya Savchuk, Pilot of the 1st Squadron

Boris Boldyrevsky

as Mechanic Sagdullaev

Ivan Reutov

as Mechanic Sergey Skvortsov

Valentin Grudinin

as Colonel

Vladimir Volkov

as Party Organization Secretary

Vladimir Brodsky

as Kolosov

Anatoly Yurchenko

as Solomatin

Hryhoriy Hlady

as Technician Alexandrova