Restless economy

There is a Great Patriotic War . The Red Armyman Ogurtsov ( A.K. Grave ), in the pre-war past, an amateur rabbit breeder, is sent to a new duty station. Making his way through the forest path, he hears girlish singing, goes out into the voice and meets a girl. This turns out to be Tonya - a strict girl with the rank of corporal ( L.V. Tselikovskaya ). It turns out that they are sent to the same unit - to the Semibaba farm. Arriving at the object, they see the foreman playing the harmonies and singing songs. It does not immediately become clear that this foreman is the head of the facility - the guard foreman Semibab ( M. I. Zharov ). New arrivals see the state-of-the-art airfield and are not aware of what kind of object they have.

The night is coming. By telephone, Semibaba is warned of the approach of enemy aircraft. Hearing the rumble of approaching aircraft, he wakes up his subordinate Private Sorokonozhkin ( George Svetlani ) and gives everyone strange orders - to turn on the lights and randomly run around the airfield with them. Attracted by the “panic” at the airport, the Germans bombed him. New arrivals do not understand anything. Only in the morning after the bombing, Semibab explains to them that the airfield is false, and serves to distract enemy aircraft from the main airfield.

The German command, thinking that this airdrome is very important for the Red Army , decides to send an experienced intelligence officer with a radio station there.

The Soviet command places two units of fighters near the false airfield — the link of the Soviet night fighters and the link from the Normandie-Niemen regiment.

Shortly before the Germans' next raid, Semibab sees someone launching a triple signal rocket from behind a nearby small forest. Realizing that this is most likely a German spy, he sends Tonya for intelligence. Tonya discovers in the forest a man with a walkie-talkie in the form of a Red Army soldier ( Sergey Filippov ). This man does not notice the surveillance of him, and Tonya finds out that he settled in the village under the guise of a wounded Red Army soldier.

Two planes from the cover units - the French lieutenant Lyaroshel ( Yu.P. Lyubimov ) and the Soviet senior lieutenant Kroshkin ( V.D. Doronin ) landed on the emergency landing (gas ran out of gas), and Tony carries a photograph of the latter in his suitcase. Pilots, seeing a beautiful girl, are both passionate about her. Cucumbers, also in love with Tonya, are jealous of her for both pilots.

Cucumbers do not even suspect that Tonya does not go on dates to pilots at all, but to a German intelligence officer, slipping him misinformation about affairs at the airport. Semibab came up with such a trick, and it works: the Germans believe this misinformation and still bomb the false airfield.

In the meantime, Ogurtsov takes a “sensible initiative” - he proposes to make the mock-ups of airplanes at the airdrome so that the enemy believes that the airplanes are real and move themselves. For three days of bad weather, when German aviation could not fly, the plan for the mechanization of the airfield was completed - ropes were stretched to all the models, and now they can be moved ...

• Mikhail Zharov - Guard Petty Officer Semibab
• Lyudmila Tselikovskaya - Corporal Antonina Pavlovna Kalmykova
• Alexander Grave - Private Tikhon Petrovich Ogurtsov
• Vitaly Doronin - pilot Ivan Kroshkin
• Yuri Lyubimov - French pilot Jean Laroshel
• Vladimir Balashov - French pilot Duren
• George Svetlani - Private Sorokonozhkin
• Vladimir Uralsky - Private Gvozdarev
• Sergey Filippov - German intelligence officer Krauss
• Evgeny Velikhov - German General Rittenbach
• Ivan Lagutin - German Colonel
• M. Zilov - German Colonel
• Mikhail Pugovkin - mechanic Pugovkin

• Script writers: L. D. Tubelsky and P. L. Redhead under the pseudonym Brothers Tour
• Director: M.I. Zharov
• Director of photography: V. E. Pavlov
• Set Designer: B. M. Chebotarev
• lyrics: A. V. Sofronov

The film used real aircraft La-7 and Yak-9 , which took part in the Great Patriotic War. Regiment " Normandy-Neman " really was armed with the Yak-9 aircraft shown in the film ^[1] .

It was originally planned that the role of private Ogurtsov would be played by actor Peter Aleinikov

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