Torpedo bombers = Torpedonostsy

Soviet Union, 1983

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Episode of Series “Films of the great victory 1941-1945”.
By interspersing historical footage with fictional narrative, this film attempts to present the precarious fighting conditions for WW2 Russian bomber pilots. The filmmaker ably captures the taxing environment in which battles were conducted and the constant danger to those serving in the armed forces. It also depicts the fraught personal lives of the pilots, under strain from wartime conditions. Based on the stories by Yuri German.

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Credits

director

Semyon Aranovich

production company

Lenfilm

Duration

01:31:00:00

Production places

Soviet Union

Production dates

1983

Appears in

Films of the great victory 1941-1945

Group of items

Films of the great victory 1941-1945

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ACMI Identifier

319403

Languages

Dutch

English

French

German

Hebrew

Italian

Japanese

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

Subject categories

Adaptations

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Aerial reconnaissance

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Battles

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Battleships

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Bombing, Aerial

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Fighter pilots

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Naval battles

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Soldiers

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945 - Psychological aspects

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945 - Soviet Union

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Air pilots

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Sailors

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Patriotism

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Russia

Feature films → Feature films - Soviet Union

Foreign language films

Literature → Russian literature - Film and video adaptations

War films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White and Colour

Holdings

DVD; Access Print (Section 1)

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