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The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.
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woman director
Casts

Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin

Vladimir Sedov
Sharov

Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina

Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor

Oleg Zhakov
Basargin

Sergei Blinnikov
constructor

Georgiy Kulikov
constructor

Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot
Sergey Bobrov
constructor

Pavel Tarasov
old constructor

Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev

Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot

Vladimir Rautbart
constructor

Ivan Ryzhov
flight inspector
Lev Barashkov
test-pilot

Vadim Zakharchenko
drunk assembler

Yan Yanakiyev
constructor

Nikolai Barmin
engineer-constructor

Nikolay Grabbe
constructor
Isay Gurov
constructor

Boris Kordunov
constructor

Mariya Lvova
doctor
Klavdiya Lepanova
constructor

Manefa Sobolevskaya
secretary

Rudolf Pankov
pilot

Vladimir Smirnov
pilot
Yelena Rybnikova
Kolchin's daughter
Vladimir Prikhodko
pilot-major (uncredited)

Nikolai Romanov
doctor (uncredited)
Lev Lobov
pilot (uncredited)

Vladislav Kovalkov
pilot (uncredited)
Crews

Tatyana Lioznova
Director
Anatoliy Agranovskiy
Writer

Andrey Eshpay
Original Music Composer

Leonid Agranovich
Writer
Lidiya Rodionova
Editor
Liliya Dushina
Costume Design

Boris Dulenkov
Production Design
Valentin Khlobynin
Sound
Kseniya Blinova
Editor
Anatoliy Agranovskiy
Novel

Valeriy Ginzburg
Director of Photography
Aleksey Smirnov
Makeup Artist