

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.
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Cast

Nikolai Rybnikov
Kolchin
Vladimir Sedov
Sharov

Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Nina Kolchina

Evgeniy Evstigneev
main constructor

Oleg Zhakov
Basargin

Sergei Blinnikov
constructor

Georgiy Kulikov
constructor

Nikolay Pogodin
test-pilot

Sergey Bobrov
constructor

Pavel Tarasov
old constructor

Lev Zolotukhin
Gordeyev

Pyotr Shcherbakov
test-pilot
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