The airborne trickster - Aleksei Tomylin, civil aviation pilot - one day decides to stop tempting fate and only flies directly. The airport where Tomylin works is near the border with Afghanistan. One day he receives the task to fly across the border and transfer a package with an order to catch a notorious saboteur. On his way back, Tomylin crash lands near an abandoned settlement - and soon finds himself taken hostage by a gang. The hero pretends to agree to take the saboteur abroad, and relies only on his expertise as a flying ace.....
- Created by
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Origin
- SU
- TMDB rating
- 4.4 / 10 · 7 votes
Cast
Oleg ZhakovAleksey Tomilin, pilot
Dmitriy DudnikovMoustafa Haji, Japanese spy
Konstantin SorokinVlasov, pilot
Aleksey BondiSquadron commander
Aleksandr BeniaminovYoussuf, bartender
Fedor FedorovskiCaptain Bystrov
Pyotr NikashinKostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic- Tamara NagayevaFaizi
Zula NakhashkiyevDugar
Nikolay UrvantsovDispatcher (uncredited)