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
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Cast
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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