Wings (1966)
After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
Top billed cast
Maya BulgakovaNadezhda Petrukhina
Zhanna BolotovaTanya Petrukhina
Pantelejmon KrymovPavel Gavrilovich
Leonid DyachkovMitya Grachov
Vladimir GorelovIgor, Tanya's husband
Yuri MedvedevBoris Grigoriyevich
Nikolay GrabbeKonstantin Mikhaylovich Shuvalov
Zhanna AleksandrovaZina Yermolayeva
Sergey NikonenkoSergey Bystryakov
Rimma MarkovaShura
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