Birds over the City

Birds over the City
Russian: Птицы над городом
Directed by	Sergey Nikonenko
Written by	Semyon Freilich
Produced by	Stanislav Rozhkov
Starring	Mikhail Gluzsky Igor Merkulov Sergey Nikonenko Raisa Kurkina Sergey Obrazov
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Shumskiy
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Running time	70 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Birds over the City (Russian: Птицы над городом, romanized: Ptitsy nad gorodom) is a 1974 Soviet drama film directed by Sergey Nikonenko.

Plot

Andryusha and his fifth-grade classmates found poorly bound typewritten pages with the words 'Attack' in a pile of scrap materials. The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next block. The man is not young and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest resources, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life.

Cast

• Mikhail Gluzsky as Aleksandr Vasilevich Bukin
  • Andrey Gluzsky as young Bukin
• Igor Merkulov as Andryusha
• Sergey Nikonenko as Vishnyakov
• Raisa Kurkina as Margo
• Sergey Obrazov as Misha Solodukha
• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Lida Vishnyakova
• Svetlana Orlova as Lena
• Olga Shukshina as Olya
• Mariya Shukshina as Masha
• Andrey Vishnev as Vasya
• Vera Altayskaya as teacher
• Georgy Burkov as bulldozer driver
• Vadim Zakharchenko as Pal Palych

External links

• Birds over the City at IMDb