Baltic Skies
163 mins
Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky.
The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.
Aleksandr Violinov
Mednikov
Yevgeni Goryunov
"Red Star" correspondent
Aleksandr Strelnikov
pilot (uncredited)
Kuzma Kresnitskiy
sergeant major
Vladimir Vengerov
Director
Nikolai Chukovsky
Writer
Nikolai Chukovsky
Novel
Genrikh Marandzhyan
Director of Photography
Stera Gorakova
Editor
Yevgeni Nesterov
Sound
Vilya Rakhmatulina
Costume Design
Mikhail Pokrovsky
Camera Operator
Semyon Ivanov
Camera Operator
Georgiy Vargin
Camera Operator
Arvīds Jansons
Conductor