Going Inside a Storm

Going Inside a Storm (Иду на грозу) is a 1966 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Mikaelyan. It was based on the novel by Daniil Granin, who also wrote a screenplay together with Mikaelyan.

Plot summary
Protagonists, Sergei Krylov (Aleksandr Belyavskiy) and Oleg Tulin (Vasili Lanovoy), are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted, Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical.

Cast

 * Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Sergei Krylov
 * Vasili Lanovoy as Oleg Tulin
 * Rostislav Plyatt as Dankevich
 * Mikhail Astangov as Golitsin
 * Zhanna Prokhorenko as Lena
 * Viktoriya Lepko as Zhenya
 * Anatoli Papanov as Anykeyev
 * Yevgeni Lebedev as Agatov
 * Lev Prygunov as Richard
 * Leonid Dyachkov as Poltavskiy
 * Iosif Konopatsky as Savushkin
 * Fyodor Korchagin as Lagunov
 * Boris Leskin as pilot
 * Anatoli Abramov as second pilot
 * Pavel Luspekayev as Aleksei Ivanovich Denisov
 * Vladimir Treshchalov as Lena's husband

Television version
In 1987 Bulat Mansurov directed a color television version of this film, released by Mosfilm under the name Defeat (Поражение) in 4 series (total runtime 362 min). Starring  Igor Volkov, Andrey Teneta, Vasily Lanovoy, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatiana Plotnikova, Irina Klimova, Leonid Kuravlyov, Olga Kabo, Lev Prygunov,  Aleksandr Belyavskiy.