Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle
Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (Russian: В бой идут одни «старики») is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama film produced in the USSR about World War II fighter pilots, written and directed by Leonid Bykov, who also played the lead role as the squadron commander nicknamed Maestro.
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Maestro
[edit]- You’re not obliged to be a pilot, we'll teach you to fly anyway... but you do have to be a musician!
- This quote is a paraphrase of famous lines from Nikolai Nekrasov's poem: You’re not obliged to be a poet,/ but you do have to be a citizen.
- War is transitory, but music is eternal.
- We've no harp, so take a tambourine!
- Let's live!
Dialogue
[edit]- Ivan Fyodorovich: (won his first air victory right now) I shot it down! I shot him down! I shot, Comrade Commander!
- Vano: Oops, what did you do?
- Alyabyev: We'll have to call your parents to the principal.
Cast
[edit]- Leonid Bykov as Captain Alexey «Maestro» Titarenko, commander of the 2nd Singing squadron
- Sergey Podgorny as Victor «Darkie» Shchedronov, fighter pilot
- Sergei Ivanov as «Grasshopper» Aleksandrov, fighter pilot
- Rustam Sagdullayev as «Romeo» Sagdullayev, fighter pilot
- Yevgeniya Simonova as Masha, female bomber navigator
- Olga Mateshko as Zoya, female bomber pilot
- Vladimir Talashko as Sergey Skvortzov, fighter pilot, Maestro's wingman and best friend
- Aleksei Smirnov as Makarych, Maestro's technician
- Viktor Miroshnichenko as Ivan "Pop" Ermakov, the fighter regiment commander
- Alim Fedorinsky as Alyabyev, fighter pilot
- Vano Yantbelidze as Vano, fighter pilot
- Aleksandr Nemchenko as Ivan Fedorovich, fighter pilot
- Vilori Pashchenko as Vorobyev, fighter pilot
- Gregory Hlady as fighter pilot of 1st squadron
- Vladimir Volkov as political officer
- Dmitri Mirgorodskiy as infantry captain
- Yuri Sarantsev as Air Division commander
- Valentin Grudinin as chief of Air Army intelligence department
- Alexandr Milutin as fighter pilot
External links
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- Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle quotes at the Internet Movie Database