About not so simple friendship between Andrey Nekrasov and Ivan Karyakin having different characters and education, who met each other during the Civil War. They were assigned to organize air reconnaissance, shooting enemy fortifications from an aeroplane with a trophy camera. Their first flight ended in a crash and people of Makhno took them prisoners, then there was another captivity, and they often were under the threat of being shot.They survived at that time. In the end the cameraman was killed by a stray bullet, but the film he shot remained…
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