"[last lines of the movie] I don't know who said "only the dead have seen the end of war". I have seen the end of war. The question is: can I live again?"

"[opening lines] October 7, 2007, four days till we deploy. Grace knows I would do anything to get back to her. Anything. Today, I wrote her a letter."

"Sam Shepard as Henry "Hank" Cahill, Sam & Tommy's father"

"Beulah Koale as Specialist Tausolo Aieti"

"Jake Weber as Colonel Plymouth"

"Kate Lyn Sheil as Bell"

"Enayat Delawary as Ahmed"

"Bailee Madison as Isabelle Cahill, Sam & Grace's older daughter and Tommy's niece"

"Mare Winningham as Elsie Cahill, Sam & Tommy's stepmother"

"Yuri Sarantsev as Air Division commander"

"Vladimir Volkov as political officer"

"Alim Fedorinsky as Alyabyev, fighter pilot"

"Aleksandr Nemchenko as Ivan Fedorovich, fighter pilot"

"Yevgeniya Simonova as Masha, female bomber navigator"

"You’re not obliged to be a pilot, we'll teach you to fly anyway... but you do have to be a musician!"

"Olga Mateshko as Zoya, female bomber pilot"

"(returns to base with a captured Messerschmitt instead of the Yak) Makarych! Take the vehicle! See, changed without looking! You can hold on to the tail, the dragon doesn't bite anymore."

"(returns to base with a horse instead of a plane) Makarych! Take the vehicle! See, changed without looking! Sorry, they didn't have a tank."

"Vladimir Talashko as Sergey Skvortzov, fighter pilot, Maestro's wingman and best friend"

"Aleksei Smirnov as Makarych, Maestro's technician"

"Dmitri Mirgorodskiy as infantry captain"

"Valentin Grudinin as chief of Air Army intelligence department"

"Vano Yantbelidze as Vano, fighter pilot"

"Viktor Miroshnichenko as Ivan "Pop" Ermakov, the fighter regiment commander"

"Leonid Bykov as Captain Alexey «Maestro» Titarenko, commander of the 2nd Singing squadron"

"Sergey Podgorny as Victor «Darkie» Shchedronov, fighter pilot"

"Guys, let's live! (last words in his life)"

"Sergei Ivanov as «Grasshopper» Aleksandrov, fighter pilot"

"Rustam Sagdullayev as «Romeo» Sagdullayev, fighter pilot"

"Vilori Pashchenko as Vorobyev, fighter pilot"

"People, humanity must someday understand that hatred destroys. Only love creates."

"Romeo of Tashkent became so sad, when Juliet flew away with her biplane."

"By the way, where is my 100 grams for my victory? Calm down, I don't use to drink. But it's a matter of principle!"

"At those moment my enchanted mate turns throttle up and rushed off to a date."

"Let's live!"

"Have a walk, Vasya!"

"(reads Romeo's report) "I want to get married, request permission." Well, it's good idea. The point is, it's just in time."

"The soldier's commandment says: keep away from big bosses, but closer to the kitchen."

"(Aleksandrov crashed the plane on his first training flight) Well. Remove him from flying. Don't give him 100 grams. Appoint him as the airfield duty officer... for all eternity! Grass-hop-per!!!"

"War is transient, but music is eternal."

"Gregory Hlady as fighter pilot of 1st squadron"

"Alexandr Milutin as fighter pilot"

"We've no harp, so take a tambourine!"

"Chatterboxes... They're used to saying: "The German is a coward, the German is afraid of a head-on attack, he'll definitely turn away!" But mine didn't turn away. So much so that... my wings flew off: one to the left, other to the right. I came to on the ground... the "Yak" was burning out, and there is ... the cherry tree in blossom in front of my eyes."