Not So ‘Brand New’ Cherry Flavor
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
Fighters (1939)
Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, who has long loved him, has a difficult decision: to become a wife of a disabled person.
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Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, who has long loved him, has a difficult decision: to become a wife of a disabled person.
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Genre:Adventure
Written By:Fedor Knorre
In Theaters:11/11/1939
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Runtime:96 minutes
Studio:Dovzhenko Film Studios
Cast
Eduard Pentslin
Director
Mark Bernes
Lieutenant Sergey Kozhukharov
Vasyl Dashenko
Lieutenant Nikolay Melnikov
Evgenia Golynchik
Varya
Elena Muzil
Grandmother
Evgeniy Ageev
Major Tuchkov
Fyodor Seleznyov
Technician Yashin
Yevgeniy Cherni
Technician Barsukov
Varvara Zhuravlyova
Tanya, Kozhukharov's sister
Elizaveta Lilina
Kozhukharov's mother
Vladimir Uralskiy
Kozhukharov's father
Boris Andreyev
First lieutenant Ptenchik (uncredited)
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