They Were Actors (1981)
Original title: Они были актёрами
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.
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Zinaida KirienkoAleksandra Peregonets
Igor LedogorovRyabinin
Aleksandr FatyushinBaryshev
Zhanna ProkhorenkoOzerova
Vladimir DruzhnikovDobkevich
Nikolai Volkov St.Dvin-DvinskyYelizaveta SergeyevaYakovleva
Lyudmila StoyanovaFyodorova
Aristarkh LivanovDobrosmyslov
Vladimir ZaytsevSavvateyevYevgeni TarasovOld Actor
Aleksei AlekseyevPresident of the Military TribunalMovie DNA
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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.
How long is They Were Actors?
They Were Actors has a runtime of 88 minutes.