Courage

Courage

1939 · 65 min · ★ 4.6 · Drama, War

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.....

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov · Written by Georgiy Kubanskiy

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Oleg Zhakov Aleksey Tomilin, pilot
Dmitriy Dudnikov Moustafa Haji, Japanese spy
Konstantin Sorokin Vlasov, pilot
Aleksey Bondi Squadron commander
Aleksandr Beniaminov Youssuf, bartender
Fedor Fedorovski Captain Bystrov
Pyotr Nikashin Kostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic
Tamara Nagayeva Faizi
Zula Nakhashkiyev Dugar
Nikolay Urvantsov Dispatcher (uncredited)
Mikhail Shifman Passenger with the newspaper (uncredited)

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