''Clear Skies'' (russian: Чистое небо, Chistoe nebo) is a 1961 Soviet
romance film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Grigori Chukhrai
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. ...
. It won the Grand Prix (in a tie with
Kaneto Shindo
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', ''Kuroneko'' and ' ...
's ''
The Naked Island
''The Naked Island'' ( ja, text=裸の島, translit=Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue.
Plot
The film depicts a small family, a husba ...
'') at the
2nd Moscow International Film Festival
The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film ''The Naked Island'' directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film '' Clear Skies'' directed by Grigori Chukhrai.
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Plot
The film takes place in the USSR during the 1940s and the 1950s. During the war pilot Alexey Astakhov fights, gets captured and then manages to escape. In peacetime Alexey is treated with distrust and suspicion - he is a soldier who had been in captivity and thereby has "stained the moral character of the Soviet pilot." Alexey suffers, can not find work in his field nor a place in life. Sasha Lvova's love which she has carried through the war and the difficulties of the postwar period saves him. After the death of Stalin, Astakhov is called to the Ministry of Defense, where his military award is returned. Alexey returns to the squadron and tests planes.
Cast
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Yevgeni Urbansky
Yevgeni Yakovlevich Urbansky (russian: Евгений Яковлевич Урбанский; born February 27, 1932 in Moscow – November 5, 1965, Bukhara Region) was a prominent Soviet Russian actor.
The creative life of Yevgeni Urbansky was sho ...
as Aleksei Astakhov
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Nina Drobysheva as Sasha Lvova
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Natalya Kuzmina as Lyusya
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Vitali Konyayev as Petya
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Georgi Kulikov as Mitya
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Leonid Knyazev
Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide.
People with the name include:
*Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright an ...
as Ivan Ilyich
*
Georgi Georgiu Georgi may refer to:
* Georgi (given name)
* Georgi (surname)
See also
*Georgy (disambiguation)
*Georgii (disambiguation) Georgii may refer to:
;Given name
* Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin
* Georgii Karpechenko ...
as Nikolai Avdeyevich
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Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (russian: Олег Павлович Табаков; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988).
Biography
Tabak ...
as Seryozhka
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Alik Krylov as Sergey
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Vitali Bondarev as Yegorka
References
External links
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1961 films
1960s romance films
1960s Russian-language films
Films directed by Grigori Chukhrai
Soviet war films
1961 war films
War romance films
Soviet World War II films
Russian World War II films
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