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Clear Skies

Original title: Chistoe nebo
  • 1961
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
448
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Clear Skies (1961)
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During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

  • Director
    • Grigoriy Chukhray
  • Writer
    • Daniil Khrabrovitsky
  • Stars
    • Nina Drobysheva
    • Evgeniy Urbanskiy
    • Natalya Kuzmina
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    448
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Grigoriy Chukhray
    • Writer
      • Daniil Khrabrovitsky
    • Stars
      • Nina Drobysheva
      • Evgeniy Urbanskiy
      • Natalya Kuzmina
    • 5User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins

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    Nina Drobysheva
    Nina Drobysheva
    • Sasha Lvova
    Evgeniy Urbanskiy
    Evgeniy Urbanskiy
    • Aleksei Astakhov
    Natalya Kuzmina
    • Lyusya
    • (as N. Kuzmina)
    Vitaliy Konyaev
    Vitaliy Konyaev
    • Petya
    • (as V. Konyayev)
    Georgiy Kulikov
    Georgiy Kulikov
    • Mitya
    • (as G. Kulikov)
    Leonid Knyazev
    Leonid Knyazev
    • Ivan Ilyich
    • (as L. Knyazev)
    Georgiy Georgiu
    Georgiy Georgiu
    • Nikolai Avdeyevich
    • (as G. Georgiu)
    Oleg Tabakov
    Oleg Tabakov
    • Seryozhka
    • (as O. Tabakov)
    Alik Krylov
    • Sergey
    Vitali Bondarev
    • Yegorka
    • (as Vitalik Bondarev)
    A. Aleksandrushkin
    Vladimir Anisko
    • Aleksey's Friend
    • (as V. Anisko)
    Konstantin Bartashevich
    Konstantin Bartashevich
    • Flight Director
    • (as K. Bartashevich)
    Aleksandr Dubov
      Nikolai Khryashchikov
      Nikolai Khryashchikov
        Pyotr Kiryutkin
        Pyotr Kiryutkin
          Tamara Nosova
          Tamara Nosova
          • Factory Girl
          • (as T. Nosova)
          Valentin Abramov
          Valentin Abramov
          • Episode
          • (uncredited)
          • Director
            • Grigoriy Chukhray
          • Writer
            • Daniil Khrabrovitsky
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          • Trivia
            The action takes place in the USSR in the 1940s - 1950s.
          • Connections
            Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A szovjet film 1953-1970 (1990)

          User reviews5

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          7/10
          grob248 is right.
          Clear Skies labors under several awkward Soviet film necessities of its period, but it succeeds in creating a convincing story that--unlike Chukhrai's mediocre Ballad of a Soldier--actually forces the viewer to think about the unpleasant realities of recent Soviet history. Chukhrai's skill in handling actors is evident in both movies, but builds to greater impact in Clear Skies. The camera work in Clear Skies is also far superior to the earlier movie--the scene with the train full of soldiers passing through the crowd of crying women is more skillfully shot than anything any American cinematographer was doing at that period. Unfortunately, Chukhrai's special effects for Clear Skies were laughably bad; he would have done better to leave the toy airplanes out of it.

          My own suspicion is that critics deem Ballad of a Soldier a classic because it used amateur actors and was shot in black and white, while they overlook the much better Clear Skies because of garish color, relentlessly photogenic characters and soap opera-ish ending make it seem--to them--like merely a somewhat tackier Hollywood film. In fact, it beats a great deal of what Hollywood was doing at that time, in spite of its political baggage.
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          • shishaldin
          • Jun 12, 2008

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          Details

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          • Release date
            • May 20, 1961 (Soviet Union)
          • Country of origin
            • Soviet Union
          • Language
            • Russian
          • Also known as
            • Čisto nebo
          • Filming locations
            • Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia(Studio)
          • Production company
            • Mosfilm
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          • Runtime
            1 hour 50 minutes
          • Color
            • Color
          • Sound mix
            • Mono
          • Aspect ratio
            • 1.37 : 1

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