They Were Actors (1981)

9.0/10 88 min War Drama Adventure

Overview

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.

Cast

Zinaida Kirienko

Aleksandra Peregonets

Igor Ledogorov

Ryabinin

Aleksandr Fatyushin

Baryshev

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Ozerova

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Dobkevich

Nikolai Volkov St.

Dvin-Dvinsky

Lyudmila Stoyanova

Fyodorova

Aristarkh Livanov

Dobrosmyslov

Vladimir Zaytsev

Savvateyev

Aleksei Alekseyev

President of the Military Tribunal

Muza Krepkogorskaya

Kablukova

Ivan Kosykh

Solodchiy

Boris Bityukov

Fricke

Uldis Lieldidzs

Hans von Wiene

Audris Chadaravičius

Kurt Christmann

Juozas Rigertas

Walter Kehrer

Ivan Zhevago

Burgermeister

Valentina Klyagina

Radio operator

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