Stalin-era propaganda so gorgeous you'll almost forgive the ideology.
About the non-stop flight of three Soviet pilots around the globe on the stratoplane "Pobeda-1".
Cinematography
Those stratoplane shots are genuinely breathtaking 85 years later.
Direction
Pudovkin doing state-mandated cheerleading with leftover montage skills.
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vladimir Solovyov
Klim Samoylov
Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Klim's mother
Aleksey Zubov
Sasha, Klim's brother
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
Liza Samoylova
Luka Liashenko
Fomin
Nikoloz Sanishvili
Gudiashvili
Aleksandr Grechaniy
Gorelov
Nikolai Arsky
Sasha, pilot (uncredited)
Aleksey Dolinin
Seryozha, cook (uncredited)
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Citizen (uncredited)
Sergey Nikonov
Vasiliy Ivanovich, pilot (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pudovkin was pressured into this after his earlier experimental work fell out of favor; 'Pobeda' was his attempt to prove he could make 'healthy' socialist realist art.
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