Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle

Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle
Directed byLeonid Bykov
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Nikolay Zlochevsky
  • Ilya Fidman
StarringLeonid Bykov
CinematographyVladimir Voytenko
Edited byM. Zorovoy
Music byViktor Shevchenko
Production
company
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
92 min
CountrySoviet Union (Ukrainian SSR)
LanguagesRussian, Ukrainian

Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (Russian: В бой идут одни «старики», romanized: V boy idut odni "stariki"; one of the meanings of the Russian idiom 'old man' is 'most experienced person') is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama black-and-white film produced in the USSR about World War II fighter pilots, written and directed by Leonid Bykov, who also played the lead role as the squadron commander.

Screenplay by Leonid Bykov, Yevgeny Onopriyenko and Aleksandr Satsky.

Original music by Viktor Shevchenko, cinematography by Vladimir Voytenko. Runtime 92 min. Production by Dovzhenko Film Studios.