title: Torpedo Bombers
text: # Torpedo Bombers
  
  Torpedo Bombers (Russian: Торпедоносцы, romanized: Torpedonostsy) is a Soviet war drama film directed by Semyon Aranovich based on the unfinished story of Yuri German.
  
  ## Plot
  
  1944 year. The Second World War. The naval aviation regiment is based at a small airfield. For pilots, this is both front and rear. They complete combat missions and return to their families. But each flight may be the last.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Rodion Nakhapetov as Senior Lieutenant Alexander Belobrov
  * Aleksei Zharkov as Petty Officer Fyodor Cherepets
  * Andrei Boltnev as Captain-Engineer Gavrilov
  * Stanislav Sadalskiy as Senior Lieutenant Dmitrienko
  * Tatyana Kravchenko as Masha
  * Vera Glagoleva as Shura
  * Nadezhda Lukashevich as Nastya
  * Vsevolod Shilovsky as Sergeant Major Artyukhov
  * Sergey Bekhterev as Lieutenant Colonel Kurochkin
  * Aleksandr Filippenko as Soviet Air Force Major-General
  * Yury Kuznetsov as Lieutenant Colonel Fomenko, Air Regiment Commander
  * Eduard Volodarsky as guard captain, crew commander
  * Vyacheslav Voronin as episode
  
  ## Awards
  
  ### 1984 All-Union Film Festival
  
  * Prize for the Best military-patriotic film
  * Jury diploma for Best Cinematography (Vladimir Ilyin)
  
  ### 1986 USSR State Prize
  
  * Svetlana Karmalita, Semyon Aranovich, Vladimir Ilyin, Isaac Kaplan, Rodion Nakhapetov
  