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Sergey Nikonenko Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (russian: Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Russian actor. He performed in more than eighty films since 1961. Selected filmography * 1967 ** ''The Red and the Whit ...

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Eduard Artemyev Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf; born 30 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is ...

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Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at ...

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Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

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Plot

Andryusha and his fifth-grade classmates found poorly bound typewritten pages with the words 'Attack' in a pile of scrap materials. The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next block. The man is not young and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest resources, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life.

Cast

Mikhail Gluzsky Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Глу́зский; 20 November 1918 – 15 June 2001) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He starred in the 1972 film, ''Monologue'', which was entered ...

as Aleksandr Vasilevich Bukin ** Andrey Gluzsky as young Bukin * Igor Merkulov as Andryusha *

as Vishnyakov *

Raisa Kurkina Raisa may refer to *Raisa (given name) * Raisa (surname) * ''Raisa'' (album) by Raisa Andriana * ''Raisa'' (film), a 2015 Romanian short film *Raisa (singer) Raisa Andriana, better known by her mononym Raisa (born in Jakarta on 6 June 1990), is ...

as Margo *

Sergey Obrazov Sergey may refer to: * Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name) * Sergey, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland * ''Sergey'' (wasp), a genus in subfamily Doryctinae The Doryctinae or doryctine wasps are ...

as Misha Solodukha *

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in St. Petersburg, Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin ...

as Lida Vishnyakova * Svetlana Orlova as Lena *

Olga Shukshina Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russ ...

as Olya * Mariya Shukshina as Masha * Andrey Vishnev as VasyaBirds over the City (1974) Full Cast / Crew
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Vera Altayskaya Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya (russian: Ве́ра Влади́мировна Алта́йская) (21 May 1919 – 28 December 1978) was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies. Born in Petrograd, she wa ...

as teacher * Georgy Burkov as bulldozer driver *

Vadim Zakharchenko Vadim Viktorovich Zakharchenko (russian: Вадим Викторович Захарченко; 19 February 1929 — 2 January 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2002. Honored Artist of t ...

as Pal Palych

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1974 films 1970s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1974 drama films Soviet war drama films Soviet black-and-white films Gorky Film Studio films Films scored by Eduard Artemyev