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.
as Lunin
as Serov
as Rassokhin
as Kabankov
as Baiseitov
as Chepyolkin
as Mariya Sergeyevna
as Sonya
as Slava
as Mednikov
as Hilda
as Uvarov
as Proskuryakov
as Khovrin
as Tatarenko
as Kuznetsov
as Gromeko
as Anna Stepanovna
as Antonina Trofimovna
as commander
as political party organizer
as Sharapov
as driver
as driver
as blockade man
as pilot
as "Red Star" correspondent
as Ryabushkin
as orderly messenger (uncredited)
as driver (uncredited)
as wounded man (uncredited)
as partisan (uncredited)
as correspondent (uncredited)
as pilot (uncredited)
as driver (uncredited)
as general (uncredited)
as pilot (uncredited)
as blockade woman (uncredited)
as pilot (uncredited)
as sergeant major
