They Were Actors (1981)
Они были актёрами
Overview
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.
What is They Were Actors about?
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. They Were Actors is a War, Drama, Adventure movie, released on 1981-12-12, runtime 88 minutes.
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Directed by
Georgi Natanson
Cast
- Zinaida Kirienko as Aleksandra Peregonets
- Igor Ledogorov as Ryabinin
- Aleksandr Fatyushin as Baryshev
- Zhanna Prokhorenko as Ozerova
- Vladimir Druzhnikov as Dobkevich
- Nikolai Volkov St. as Dvin-Dvinsky
- Yelizaveta Sergeyeva as Yakovleva
- Lyudmila Stoyanova as Fyodorova
- Aristarkh Livanov as Dobrosmyslov
- Vladimir Zaytsev as Savvateyev
- Yevgeni Tarasov as Old Actor
- Aleksei Alekseyev as President of the Military Tribunal
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