The Beginning of the Legend
Overview
The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.
Cast & Crew
Larisa Luzhina
Anna Timofeyevna
Georgi Burkov
Aleksei Ivanovich
Oleg Orlov
Yura
Svetlana Ponomaryova
Nastya
Maya Bulgakova
Kseniya Gerasimovna
Vilnis Bekeris
Albert
Boris Grigorev
Dronov
Sergei Novikov
Valya
Aleksandr Kavalerov
polizei-translator
Vladimir Gusev
pilot
Yuriy Grigorev
pilot
Afanasi Kochetkov
Kuzma
Natalya Velichko
Nastya's mother
Vera Altayskaya
villager
Tatyana Gavrilova
station attendant
Zinaida Yarosh
Zoya
Aleksey Krychenkov
military instructor
German Poloskov
Nastya's father
Ervin Knausmyuller
german officer
Yuriy Potyomkin
polizei
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