Synopsis
The airborne trickster - Aleksei Tomylin, civil aviation pilot - one day decides to stop tempting fate and only flies directly. The airport where Tomylin works is near the border with Afghanistan. One day he receives the task to fly across the border and transfer a package with an order to catch a notorious saboteur. On his way back, Tomylin crash lands near an abandoned settlement - and soon finds himself taken hostage by a gang. The hero pretends to agree to take the saboteur abroad, and relies only on his expertise as a flying ace.....
Details
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- August 16, 1939
- Released
- Soviet Union
- Lenfilm
- 1h 5m
Where to watch
No known streaming options in United States.
Cast
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Oleg ZhakovAleksey Tomilin, pilot -
Dmitriy DudnikovMoustafa Haji, Japanese spy -
Konstantin SorokinVlasov, pilot -
Aleksey BondiSquadron commander -
Aleksandr BeniaminovYoussuf, bartender -
Fedor FedorovskiCaptain Bystrov -
Pyotr NikashinKostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic -
Tamara NagayevaFaizi
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Zula NakhashkiyevDugar -
Nikolay UrvantsovDispatcher (uncredited) -
Mikhail ShifmanPassenger with the newspaper (uncredited)
