Clear Skies (film)

Clear Skies (Russian: Чистое небо, romanized: Chistoe nebo) is a 1961 Soviet war romance film directed by Grigori Chukhrai. It won the Grand Prix (in a tie with Kaneto Shindo's The Naked Island) at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.^[1]

Clear Skies
Film poster
Directed by	Grigori Chukhrai
Written by	Daniil Khrabrovitsky
Produced by	Vladimir Kantorovich
Starring	Yevgeni Urbansky
Cinematography	Sergei Poluyanov
Edited by	Maria Timofeeva
Music by	Mikhail Ziv
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	20 May 1961 (1961-05-20)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

The film takes place in the USSR during the 1940s and the 1950s. During the war pilot Alexey Astakhov fights, gets captured and then manages to escape. In peacetime Alexey is treated with distrust and suspicion - he is a soldier who had been in captivity and thereby has "stained the moral character of the Soviet pilot." Alexey suffers, can not find work in his field nor a place in life. Sasha Lvova's love which she has carried through the war and the difficulties of the postwar period saves him. After the death of Stalin, Astakhov is called to the Ministry of Defense, where his military award is returned. Alexey returns to the squadron and tests planes.

Cast

• Yevgeni Urbansky as Aleksei Astakhov
• Nina Drobysheva as Sasha Lvova
• Natalya Kuzmina as Lyusya
• Vitali Konyayev as Petya
• Georgi Kulikov as Mitya
• Leonid Knyazev as Ivan Ilyich
• Georgi Georgiu as Nikolai Avdeyevich
• Oleg Tabakov as Seryozhka
• Alik Krylov as Sergey
• Vitali Bondarev as Yegorka