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.....
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Oleg Zhakov
Aleksey Tomilin, pilot
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Dmitriy Dudnikov
Moustafa Haji, Japanese spy
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Konstantin Sorokin
Vlasov, pilot
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Aleksey Bondi
Squadron commander
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Aleksandr Beniaminov
Youssuf, bartender
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Fedor Fedorovski
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Antosha Rybkin
Pyotr Nikashin
Kostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic
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Tamara Nagayeva
Faizi
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Zula Nakhashkiyev
Dugar
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Year Nineteen
Nikolay Urvantsov
Dispatcher (uncredited)
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Mikhail Shifman
Passenger with the newspaper (uncredited)
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Mikhail Kalatozov Director · Georgiy Kubanskiy Writer Venedict Pushkov Composer
First release August 16, 1939 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Мужество
Production
Lenfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Original title
Мужество
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 16, 1939
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No release date listed for United States.
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