Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

V boy idut odni stariki

Soviet Union

1973

92 Min

Color, Black and White

Russian

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Leonid Bykov, Yevgeni Onopriyenko, Aleksandr Satsky

CAST Leonid Bykov, Sergei Podgornyj, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullayev, Yevgeniya Simonova, Olga Mateshko, Vladimir Talashko, Aleksei Smirnov, Viktor Miroshnichenko, Gregory Hlady, Yuri Sarantsev, Alim Fedorinsky, Vano Yantbelidze, Aleksandr Nemchenko, Boris Boldyrevskiy, Valentin Makarov, Lyudmila Marchenko, Vilori Pashchenko, Valentin Grudinin

One of the best Russian films about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Only Old Men are going to Battle produced in 1973, multi-awarded film also holds a record in the history of world cinema. The film was seen by 44.3 million viewers during its first year at the theatres.

The “old men” in this squadron were no older than twenty, but those “wet behind the ears”, a reinforcement fresh from flying schools with accelerated training, were not allowed to go to battle for quite a while… They were yet to experience everything the heat of the battle, the joy of the first victory over the enemy, the grandeur of a brotherhood strengthened with blood, the first love, and the bitterness of a loss…And there came the day when, on hearing the command “only ‘old men’ are going to battle”, it was them who rushed to their planes… —sundaytimes.lk