
They Were Actors
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.
Top Billed Cast

Zinaida Kirienko
Aleksandra Peregonets

Igor Ledogorov
Ryabinin

Aleksandr Fatyushin
Baryshev

Zhanna Prokhorenko
Ozerova

Vladimir Druzhnikov
Dobkevich
Featured Crew

Venyamin Basner
Original Music Composer
Viktor Orlov
Writer

Georgi Natanson
Writer

Georgi Natanson
Theatre Play
Anatoliy Nikolayev
Director of Photography

Georgi Natanson
Director

Ivan Plastinkin
Production Design
Ninel Kalenichenko
Sound
Antonina Zimina
Editor
Lyudmila Sviridenko
Editor
Tamara Krylova
Makeup Artist
Elvira Mutusheva
Costume Design