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Wings is a film of genre Drama directed by Larissa Chepitko with Maya Bulgakovа
Wings (1966)
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Add to a movie listWings (Russian: Крылья, tr. Krylya) is a 1966 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography.
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Nadezhda Petrukhina, a once heroic Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.Actors
Maya Bulgakovа
(Nadezhda Petrukhina)
Maïa Boulgakova
(Nadezhda Petroukhina)
Rimma Markova
(Shura)
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
(Misha)
Olga Gobzeva
(Journalist)
Zhanna Bolotova
(Tanya Petrukhina)
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