Clear Skies

May 20, 1961

1h 50m

★ 5.8

The Most Important Motion Picture That Has Ever Come From The Soviet Union

Overview

For many years, Sasha Lvova has been waiting for the return of her lover, pilot Aleksei Astakhov, refusing to believe in his death at the front. And he really returns to her and his son after captivity, but this is a completely different person, rejected by society, expelled from the profession. It is difficult to say how Aleksei’s fate would have been if it hadn’t for Sasha’s love, her ability to survive in the most difficult circumstances.

Genres

Drama

War

Romance

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Sasha Lvova

Nina Drobysheva

Aleksei Astakhov

Evgeniy Urbanskiy

Lyusya

Natalya Kuzmina

Petya

Vitaliy Konyaev

Mitya

Georgiy Kulikov

Ivan Ilyich

Leonid Knyazev

Nikolai Avdeyevich

Georgi Georgiu

Sergei

Oleg Tabakov

Sergei in childhood

Alik Krylov

Yegorka

Vitali Bondarev

flight director

Konstantin Bartashevich

girl at the factory

Tamara Nosova

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