They Were Actors

They Were Actors

88 mins | Drama, Adventure, War | Dec. 12, 1981

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.

They Were Actors

88 mins | Drama, Adventure, War | Dec. 12, 1981

They Were Actors
The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Они были актёрами
Directors Georgi Natanson
Writers Viktor Orlov, Georgi Natanson

Cast

Zinaida Kirienko

as Aleksandra Peregonets

Igor Ledogorov

as Ryabinin

Aleksandr Fatyushin

as Baryshev

Zhanna Prokhorenko

as Ozerova

Vladimir Druzhnikov

as Dobkevich

Nikolai Volkov St.

as Dvin-Dvinsky

Yelizaveta Sergeyeva

as Yakovleva

Lyudmila Stoyanova

as Fyodorova

Aristarkh Livanov

as Dobrosmyslov

Vladimir Zaytsev

as Savvateyev

Yevgeni Tarasov

as Old Actor

Aleksei Alekseyev

as President of the Military Tribunal

Muza Krepkogorskaya

as Kablukova

Ivan Kosykh

as Solodchiy

Boris Bityukov

as Fricke

Uldis Lieldidžs

as Hans von Wiene

Juozas Rigertas

as Walter Kehrer

Ivan Zhevago

as Burgermeister

Valentina Klyagina

as Radio operator

Vadim Grachov

as член военного трибунала

Yury Maksimov

as актер

Galina Levchenko

as женщина в зале суда

Bohdan Beniuk

as абитуриент

Valerian Vinogradov

as член военного трибунала

Nikolai Barmin

as сторона обвинения

Yury Martynov

as член военного трибунала

Nataliya Grigorieva

as абитуриентка