

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
1974-08-12 · 92 min · ★ 7.8
Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
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- Directors
- Leonid Bykov
- Production companies
- Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 269,750
Top Cast
Leonid BykovCaptain Aleksei “Maestro” Titarenko
Serhiy PidhornyiViktor “Smuglyanka” Shchedronov
Sergei IvanovLieutenant "Kuznechik" Alexandrov
Rustam SagdullaevLieutenant "Romeo" Sagdullayev
Yevgeniya SimonovaMasha Popova
Olga MateshkoCaptain Zoya Molchanova
Volodymyr TalashkoSenior Lieutenant Sergei Skvortsov
Viktor MiroshnichenkoMajor Ivan Ermakov
Aleksei Smirnovmechanic Makarych
Alim FedorinskyAlyabyev
Vano YantbelidzeLieutenant Vano Kobakhidze
Oleksandr NemchenkoIvan Fedorovich
Yuriy SarantsevVasily Vasilievich
Valentyn Makarovregiment chief of staff
Leonid MarchenkoPetya Savchuk
Boris Boldyrevskiymechanic Sagdullaev
Ivan Reutovmechanic Sergey Skvortsov
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