Torpedo Bombers

Torpedo Bombers (Russian: Торпедоносцы, romanized: Torpedonostsy) is a 1983 Soviet World War II film directed by Semyon Aranovich based on the unfinished story of Yuri German.^[2][3][4]

Torpedo Bombers
Russian: Торпедоносцы
Directed by	Semyon Aranovich
Written by	Aleksei German[1] Svetlana Karmalita
Produced by	Aleksei Gusev
Starring	Rodion Nakhapetov Aleksei Zharkov Andrei Boltnev Stanislav Sadalskiy Tatyana Kravchenko
Cinematography	Vladimir Ilyin
Edited by	Aleksandra Borovskaya
Music by	Aleksandr Knaifel
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	August 1, 1983 (1983-08-01)
Running time	96 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

1944 year. The Second World War. The naval aviation regiment is based at a small airfield. For pilots, this is both front and rear. They complete combat missions and return to their families. But each flight may be the last.^[5]

Cast

• Rodion Nakhapetov as Senior Lieutenant Alexander Belobrov
• Aleksei Zharkov as Petty Officer Fyodor Cherepets
• Andrei Boltnev as Captain-Engineer Gavrilov
• Stanislav Sadalskiy as Senior Lieutenant Dmitrienko^[6]
• Tatyana Kravchenko as Masha
• Vera Glagoleva as Shura
• Nadezhda Lukashevich as Nastya
• Vsevolod Shilovsky as Sergeant Major Artyukhov
• Sergey Bekhterev as Lieutenant Colonel Kurochkin
• Aleksandr Filippenko as Soviet Air Force Major-General
• Yury Kuznetsov as Lieutenant Colonel Fomenko, Air Regiment Commander
• Eduard Volodarsky as guard captain, crew commander
• Vyacheslav Voronin as episode

Awards

1984 All-Union Film Festival^[7]

• Prize for the Best military-patriotic film
• Jury diploma for Best Cinematography (Vladimir Ilyin)

1986 USSR State Prize

• Svetlana Karmalita, Semyon Aranovich, Vladimir Ilyin, Isaac Kaplan, Rodion Nakhapetov