Release Date

01 Jan, 2018

Runtime

00:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A film about a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Semyon Simonovich Kalinin. He was born on July 12, 1920. From 1939 to 1958 he served in the Soviet Army, went through the war from beginning to end. He was a paratrooper, scout, partisan, then graduated from flight school and became a pilot. Participated in battles near Moscow and Stalingrad. Participant in the 1945 Victory Parade in Moscow. He flew fighter jets and, in peacetime, jet planes. He made an emergency landing several times and survived. They planned to take him to the cosmonaut corps. After the war, he found his destiny, got married and lived with his wife for 53 years. They have four children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. This legendary man passed away quite recently, at the age of 97, but he managed to tell the whole world about his years, lived not in vain.

Original Title

О годах, прожитых не зря