Torpedo Bombers Explained

Torpedo Bombers
Native Name:	ru|Торпедоносцы
Director:	Semyon Aranovich
Producer:	Aleksei Gusev
Music:	Aleksandr Knaifel
Cinematography:	Vladimir Ilyin
Editing:	Aleksandra Borovskaya
Studio:	Lenfilm
Runtime:	96 min.
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian

Torpedo Bombers (ru|Торпедоносцы|Torpedonostsy) is a 1983 Soviet World War II film directed by Semyon Aranovich based on the unfinished story of Yuri German.^{[1] [2] [3]}

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.^[4]

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^[5]
• 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^[6]

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

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.vologda.kp.ru/online/news/3759088/ В Вологде каждую неделю будут показывать фильмы о войне
2. https://spbvedomosti.ru/news/gorod/gorodskaya-khronika-vazhnoe-v-peterburge-6-fevralya-2020/ Городская хроника: важное в Петербурге 6 февраля 2020
3. https://www.5-tv.ru/news/258018/vse-vporadke-unego-doc-uria-kuznecova-rasskazala-osostoanii-zdorova-otca/ «Все в порядке у него»: Дочь Юрия Кузнецова рассказала о состоянии здоровья отца
4. https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/42271/ Торпедоносцы
5. https://cont.ws/@sam8807/1022417 По мнению ветеранов, это один из самых достоверных фильмов о войне
6. Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Sergey Yutkevich; Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987.