Aerograd (1935)
Original title: Аэроград
Aerograd is a 1935 Russian-language drama movie directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, with a running time of 1h 22m. It stars Stepan Shahaida, Sergey Stolyarov and Stepan Shkurat.
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Cast
- Stepan Shahaida as Stepan Glushchak, old partisan
- Sergey Stolyarov as Volodymyr Glushchak, pilot
- Stepan Shkurat as Vasyl Khudiakov
- G. Tsoi as Wang Lin, Stepan's friend
- Nikon Tabunasov as aboriginal
- Leonid Kan as Japanese saboteur
- I. Kim as Japanese saboteur
- Boris Dobronravov as Anikii Shavanov, old Believer
- Yekaterina Melnikova as Stepan's wife
- Yuliia Tsai as Volodymyr's wife
- Vadim Gusev as old believer's son
- Elena Maksimova as Mariia Kudina