Clear Skies (Russian: Чистое небо, romanized: Chistoe nebo) is a 1961 Soviet war romance film directed by Grigori Chukhrai. It won the Grand Prix (in a tie with Kaneto Shindo's The Naked Island) at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.
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Plot
The film takes place in the USSR during the 1940s and the 1950s. During the war pilot Alexey Astakhov fights, gets captured and then manages to escape. In peacetime Alexey is treated with distrust and suspicion - he is a soldier who had been in captivity and thereby has "stained the moral character of the Soviet pilot." Alexey suffers, can not find work in his field nor a place in life. Sasha Lvova's love which she has carried through the war and the difficulties of the postwar period saves him. After the death of Stalin, Astakhov is called to the Ministry of Defense, where his military award is returned. Alexey returns to the squadron and tests planes.
Cast
Yevgeni Urbansky as Aleksei Astakhov
Nina Drobysheva as Sasha Lvova
Natalya Kuzmina as Lyusya
Vitali Konyayev as Petya
Georgi Kulikov as Mitya
Leonid Knyazev as Ivan Ilyich
Georgi Georgiu as Nikolai Avdeyevich
Oleg Tabakov as Seryozhka
Alik Krylov as Sergey
Vitali Bondarev as Yegorka