Clear Skies (film)

1961 film

Clear Skies
Film poster
Directed by	Grigori Chukhrai
Written by	Daniil Khrabrovitsky
Produced by	Vladimir Kantorovich
Starring	Yevgeni Urbansky
Cinematography	Sergei Poluyanov
Edited by	Maria Timofeeva
Music by	Mikhail Ziv
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	20 May 1961 (1961年05月20日)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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.^[1]

Plot

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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

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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

References

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^ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2012.

External links

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Clear Skies at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Grigori Chukhrai
The Forty-First (1956) Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Clear Skies (1961) There Was an Old Couple (1965) People! (1966) Memory (1971) Untypical Story (1978) Life Is Beautiful (1979) I'll Teach You to Dream (1984)

v t e Moscow International Film Festival Main Award
1959–1967 Grand Prix	Fate of a Man (1959) The Naked Island – Clear Skies (1961) 8+1⁄2 (1963) War and Peace – Twenty Hours (1965) The Journalist – Father (1967)
1969–1987 Golden Prize	Lucía – Serafino – We'll Live Till Monday (1969) Confessions of a Police Captain – Live Today, Die Tomorrow! – The White Bird Marked with Black (1971) That Sweet Word: Liberty! – Affection (1973) The Promised Land – Dersu Uzala – We All Loved Each Other So Much (1975) The Fifth Seal – El puente – Mimino (1977) Christ Stopped at Eboli – Siete días de enero – Camera Buff (1979) O Homem que Virou Suco – The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone – Teheran 43 (1981) Amok – Alsino and the Condor – Vassa (1983) Come and See – A Soldier's Story – The Descent of the Nine (1985) Intervista (1987)
1989–present Golden St. George	The Icicle Thief (1989) Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea (1991) Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993) (No award in 1995) Marvin's Room (1997) Will to Live (1999) Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000) The Believer (2001) Resurrection (2002) The End of a Mystery (2003) Our Own (2004) Dreaming of Space (2005) About Sara (2006) Travelling with Pets (2007) As Simple as That (2008) Pete on the Way to Heaven (2009) Hermano (2010) Las olas (2011) Junkhearts (2012) Particle (2013) My Man (2014) Losers (2015) Daughter (2016) Yuan Shang (2017) The Lord Eagle (2018) The Secret of A Leader (2019) A Siege Diary (2020) Dogpoopgirl (2021) No Prior Appointment (2022) Tres Hermanos (2023) Shame (2024)