Courage (1939)
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.....
Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili
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Oleg Zhakov as Aleksey Tomilin, pilot |
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Dmitriy Dudnikov as Moustafa Haji, Japanese spy |
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Konstantin Sorokin as Vlasov, pilot |
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Aleksey Bondi as Squadron commander |
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Aleksandr Beniaminov as Youssuf, bartender |
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Fedor Fedorovski as Captain Bystrov |
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Pyotr Nikashin as Kostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic |
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Tamara Nagayeva as Faizi |
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Zula Nakhashkiyev as Dugar |
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Nikolay Urvantsov as Dispatcher (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Shifman as Passenger with the newspaper (uncredited) |
| Camera | Veniamin Levitin | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Georgiy Kubanskiy | Writer |
| Directing | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Director |
| Sound | Venedict Pushkov | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Efim Higer | Production Design |
| Sound | Ilya Volk | Sound Director |
| Editing | D. Lander | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Shurkin | VFX Director of Photography |
| Camera | Muzakir Shurukov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Bogdanov | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Semyon Derevyansky | Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Dubenskaya | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Nikolay Shebanov | Military Consultant |
| Camera | Veniamin Levitin | Aerial Camera |
| Camera | Georgiy Shurkin | Aerial Camera |
| Camera | Muzakir Shurukov | Aerial Camera |
| Camera | Nikolay Vikhirev | Aerial Camera |