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.

Directed by Boris Grigorev

Top cast

Larisa Luzhina

Anna Timofeyevna

Georgi Burkov

Aleksei Ivanovich

O

Oleg Orlov

Yura

S

Svetlana Ponomaryova

Nastya

Maya Bulgakova

Kseniya Gerasimovna

Vilnis Bekeris

Albert

Boris Grigorev

Dronov

S

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

Z

Zinaida Yarosh

Zoya

Aleksey Krychenkov

military instructor

German Poloskov

Nastya's father

Ervin Knausmyuller

german officer

Yuri Potyomkin

polizei

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