Fighters

Story

Synopsis

Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, who has long loved him, has a difficult decision: to become a wife of a disabled person ...

Director

Eduard Pentslin

Writers

Fedor Knorre, Yevgeni Dolmatovsky

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

6 June 1939

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Mark Bernes

  Lieutenant Sergey Kozhukharov

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  Vasyl Dashenko

  Lieutenant Nikolay Melnikov

• 

  Evgenia Golynchik

  Varya

• Aleksandr Zagorskiy

  Professor

• Elena Muzil

  Grandmother

• Evgeniy Ageev

  Major Tuchkov

• Fyodor Seleznyov

  Technician Yashin

• E. Cherni

  Technician Barsukov

• Varvara Zhuravlyova

  Tanya, Kozhukharov's sister

• Elizaveta Lilina

  Kozhukharov's mother

• 

  Vladimir Uralskiy

  Kozhukharov's father

• 

  Boris Andreyev

  First lieutenant Ptenchik (uncredited)