The guy from our city (film, 1942)

Saratov guy Sergei Lukonin ( Nikolai Kryuchkov ) in the summer of 1932 leaves the regional city in the distant Omsk , in a tank school. In Saratov, his bride remains, Varenka, who soon became an actress. In 1936, Sergei went to war in Spain , where he was captured by the Germans and impersonating a Frenchman, but the Germans, identifying him by their accent, are trying to force him to confess that he is Russian. However, the circumstances are such that Sergei was able to escape. And again the battles in which he tries to uncover the possibilities of Soviet tanks.

In 1941, the war begins, and he, like millions of Soviet people, finds himself at the front, where he meets with an old acquaintance - the German who interrogated him in Spain.

Based on the play of the same name by Konstantin Simonov .

Songs

• Armor is strong, and our tanks are fast. Music: Brothers Pokrass. Words: B. Laskin.
• Wait for me Music: M. Blanter. Words: K. Simonov. Sings: Vera Krasovitskaya .
• The stars fade, the candle burns out (Wari Romance). Music N. Kryukov, lyrics by H. Konchalovskaya

• Nikolai Kryuchkov - Sergey Lukonin
• Nikolai Bogolyubov - Arkady Andreevich Burmin
• Lydia Smirnova - Varya Lukonina-Burmina, sister of Arkady Burmina, wife of Sergey Lukonin
• Vladimir Kandelaki - Vano Guliashvili
• Nikolay Mordvinov - Alexey Petrovich Vasnetsov, Head of the Omsk Tank School
• Nina Zorskaya - Zhenya
• V. Stepanov - Sevostyanov
• Valery Medvedev - Petka "Volzhanin"
• Alexander Rumnev - translator
• Petr Lyubeshkin - Safonov
• Anatoly Alekseev - Volodya
• Nikolay Khryashchikov - signalman (not in credits)
• Giorgi Georgiou - resident physician (not in credits)
• Gregory Spiegel - German officer (not in the credits)
• Tatyana Guretskaya - a nurse in the hospital (not in the credits)
• Alexey Dolinin - episode (not in credits)
• Shaposhnikov, Pyotr Tikhonovich - wounded in the hospital (not in the credits)
• Alexander Baranov - tankman (not in credits)

• Script writers:
  • Konstantin Simonov
  • Alexander Stolper
• Directors:
  • Boris Ivanov
  • Alexander Stolper
  • Alexander Ptushko
• Production directors:
  • Uralov, Sergey
  • Rubashkin, Samuel Yakovlevich
• Artists:
  • Weisfeld, Arnold Mikhailovich
  • Spinel, Joseph Aronovich
• Composer: Kryukov, Nikolay Nikolayevich
• Songs to verses:
  • Konstantin Simonov
  • Natalya Konchalovskaya
• Sound producer: S. Klyuchevsky
• Assistant Director Davletbekov, Khakim Davletbekovich

• " I believe in love "

In 1986, the director Elena Mikhailova was filmed according to the script of Serafima Shelestovaya film “ I Believe in Love ”, dedicated to how the fate of Sergei and Vari Lukonins could have happened. The roles were performed by Nikolai Kryuchkov and Lydia Smirnova. The film uses newsreels from films of past years with the participation of L. Smirnova and N. Kryuchkov ^[1] .

• The film "The guy from our city" on the site "The weapon of cinema"