Birds over the City

Birds over the City () is a 1974 Soviet drama film directed by Sergey Nikonenko.

Plot

Andryusha and his fifth-grade classmates found poorly bound typewritten pages with the words 'Attack' in a pile of scrap materials. The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next block. The man is not young and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest resources, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life.

Cast

Mikhail Gluzsky as Aleksandr Vasilevich Bukin

Andrey Gluzsky as young Bukin

Igor Merkulov as Andryusha

Sergey Nikonenko as Vishnyakov

Raisa Kurkina as Margo

Sergey Obrazov as Misha Solodukha

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Lida Vishnyakova

Svetlana Orlova as Lena

Olga Shukshina as Olya

Mariya Shukshina as Masha

Andrey Vishnev as Vasya

Vera Altayskaya as teacher

Georgy Burkov as bulldozer driver

Vadim Zakharchenko as Pal Palych

References

External links

1974 films

1970s Russian-language films

Soviet drama films

1974 drama films

Soviet war drama films

Soviet black-and-white films

Gorky Film Studio films

Films scored by Eduard Artemyev

Films set in Russia