Squadron of Flying Hussars

Squadron of Flying Hussars (Эскадрон гусар летучих) is a 1980 Soviet war film directed by Nikita Khubov and Stanislav Rostotsky.

Plot
Denis Davydov, a poet and hero, a man who became a legend during his lifetime, literally conquered his generation. Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Zhukovsky, Baratynsky and many other poets sang in their poems the military and poetic talent, tremendous charm and straightforward nobility, desperate courage and energy of the hussar and partisan, the hero of a glorious and turbulent time for Russia.

Cast
Songs to verses by Denis Davydov were performed by Alexander Khochinsky
 * Andrei Rostotsky as Denis Davydov
 * Marina Shimanskaya as Catherine
 * Lidiya Kuznetsova as Katerina, a peasant woman
 * Yevgeni Lebedev as Mikhail Kutuzov
 * Yuri Rychkov as Popov
 * Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. as Prince Bolkhovsky
 * Andrei Syomin as Mitya Beketov
 * Aleksandr Karin as Mikhail Grigorievich Bedryaga
 * Aleksandr Zimin as Budelyok
 * Vladimir Mashchenko as Colonel Eichen
 * Ivan Krasko as Colonel Ustimovich
 * Igor Kashintsev as Khrapovitsky
 * Boris Klyuyev as French officer
 * Fyodor Odinokov as a partisan peasant
 * Igor Yasulovich as French tailor
 * Georgy Martirosyan as French officer (uncredited)