''They Conquer the Skies'' (russian: Им покоряется небо) is a 1963 Soviet drama film directed by
Tatyana Lioznova
Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova (russian: link=no, Татьяна Михайловна Лиознова; 20 July 192429 September 2011) was a Soviet film director best known for her TV series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (1973).
Film career
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Plot
The film tells about a pilot named Alexei Kolchin, who had the honor of being the first to launch a jet plane and test him. The first launch was excellent, but during the modernization of the aircraft, the engine exploded, causing Alexei to die. His friend Sergey Sharov, based on the recommendations of Alexey, makes the second launch...
Cast
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Nikolay Rybnikov as Kolchin
* Vladimir Sedov as Sharov
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Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Svetlana Afanasyevna Svetlichnaya (russian: link=no, Светлана Афанасьевна Светличная; born 15 May 1940) is a Soviet and Russian actress most famous for her role in ''The Diamond Arm'' (1968).
Biography
She was born i ...
as Nina Kolchina
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Yevgeny Yevstigneev
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (russian: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the ...
as Main designer
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Oleg Zhakov
Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate – 4 May 1988 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He performed in more than sixty films between ...
as Basargin
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Lev Barashkov as The undisciplined pilot discharged of flight tests.
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Sergei Blinnikov
Sergei Blinnikov (russian: Серге́й Капито́нович Бли́нников) was a Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1963),
* Georgiy Kulikov
Им покоряется небо (1963) Full Cast & Crew
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References
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{{Tatyana Lioznova
1963 films
1960s Russian-language films
Soviet drama films
1963 drama films