The Beginning of the Legend (1977)

8.0/10 • 62 min • War Drama Family

Overview

The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.

Cast

Larisa Luzhina

Anna Timofeyevna

Georgi Burkov

Aleksei Ivanovich

Maya Bulgakova

Kseniya Gerasimovna

Vilnis Bekeris

Boris Grigorev

Aleksandr Kavalerov

polizei-translator

Vladimir Gusev

Yuriy Grigorev

Afanasi Kochetkov

Natalya Velichko

Nastya's mother

Vera Altayskaya

Tatyana Gavrilova

station attendant

Aleksey Krychenkov

military instructor

German Poloskov

Nastya's father

Ervin Knausmyuller

Yuri Potyomkin

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