Our Heart
About Our Heart
During the war, fighter pilot Sasha Samokhin is at the front working out new tactics for air combat. Far from Moscow, designer Kazakov’s factory is drawing a new high-speed plane. When Moscow allows the plane to be built, Samokhin, now a Hero of the Soviet Union, is sent back to test it. He had thought the trip a waste and had quarreled with his girlfriend before he left. The design pulls him into the plant’s work.
Cast & crew
More about Our Heart
Aleksandr Stolper directed the Mosfilm picture in 1946. It opened on 16 April 1947. Russian Wikipedia gives 82 minutes. The screenplay is credited to Evgeny Gabrilovich, Boris Galin, and N. Denisov. Nikolai Kryukov wrote the music. Valentin Pavlov and Sergei Uralov photographed it. Iosif Shpinel was the designer. The Russian title is Наше сердце.
Themes
Background
The story is set in a rear-area aircraft plant during the Great Patriotic War, while a front-line pilot is pulled back to test a new machine.
Look
Valentin Pavlov and Sergei Uralov photographed the black-and-white Mosfilm production.
Music
Nikolai Kryukov composed the score.
Notes
- Mikhail Kuznetsov plays Samokhin. Vladimir Druzhnikov plays Kazakov.
- Nina Zorskaya, Yuri Lyubimov, Andrei Petrov, Nina Arkhipova, Vasily Zaichikov, and Alexander Khanov are in the KM.ru cast list.
- KM.ru lists the running time as 84 minutes, black and white.
- The year on the film is 1946. The public release was the following April.
Scenes
- Samokhin arrives from the front, already a Hero of the Soviet Union, to fly the plane Kazakov’s plant has been allowed to build.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1947. Наше сердце.webm)
