The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition.
Lunin
Serov
Rassokhin
Kabankov
Baiseitov
Chepyolkin
Hilda
Mariya Sergeyevna
Mednikov
Sonya
Slava
Uvarov
Proskuryakov
Khovrin
Anna Stepanovna
Antonina Trofimovna
political party organizer
Sharapov
driver
driver
blockade man
Tatarenko
Kuznetsov
Gromeko
commander
pilot
"Red Star" correspondent
Ryabushkin
orderly messenger (uncredited)
driver (uncredited)
wounded man (uncredited)
partisan (uncredited)
correspondent (uncredited)
pilot (uncredited)
driver (uncredited)
general (uncredited)
pilot (uncredited)
blockade woman (uncredited)
pilot (uncredited)
sergeant major